(Needless to say, this is a report on my Night’s Black Agents RPG session last week, put here mostly for my players’ information. Links to real places, businesses, or entities does not mean I’m claiming werewolves and vampires are running … Continue reading
So this is part of the rpg campaign announcement/pitch I sent to my gaming group last week: You are a field agent of the European Internal Action Service (EIAS), a secret organization within the European Union tasked with monitoring and … Continue reading
I have for the last couple of years been slowly but surely gaining weight. This vexes the hell out of me, as you can well imagine if you happened to peruse any of my Summer of Fitness posts from the … Continue reading
Hello and welcome to the March 2013 edition of the History Carnival, a monthly showcase of history blog writing at its finest. My name is Andrew D. Devenney, and once again it is my honor and privilege to host this … Continue reading
So yeah, this happened last Friday: This would be my new daughter, Mairi Camryn Devenney. She was a tiny little thing, coming in at 6 lbs, 3 oz and only 18 1/4 inches long (the Wife apparently makes small babies, … Continue reading
(This essay has been cross-posted at Irish Diplomatic History.) On Tuesday, 18 September 1962, a Scottish nationalist politician named William Wolfe and an Irish government diplomat and civil servant named Con Cremin met in Dublin, Ireland, for a late dinner. … Continue reading
I won’t make a habit of poking my own website every time I post something at Play The Past, but I figure for this, what the hell (the intro to this series was in December, so peeps might need a … Continue reading
Orlando Figes. The Crimean War: A History. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2011. vii + 576 pp. Bibliography, Index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8050-7460-4. Prior to picking up this book, I had only two cursory impressions of the work of Orlando Figes. … Continue reading
This past week, I spent several days in Chicago, Illinois, attending the American Historical Association’s 2012 annual conference. Normally I would have blogged about this throughout the experience, but the infinite universe or the Elder Gods or rogue bacteria decided … Continue reading
After getting my feet wet by writing my guest post on “Experimenting with Playful Historical Thinking in the Classroom” last September, I agreed a few weeks ago to join Play the Past, a group blog exploring the intersection of cultural … Continue reading