I'm going to be a bit of a self-promoter here, but I wrote an answer I'm really proud of, and if y'all don't mind, I'd really like some feedback. I'm just beginning to write answers, but my area of specialization (middle-late XIX - early XX century South America, focusing on formation of modern states), is a bit obscure and doesn't get a lot of feedback from the usual traffic. Don't pull your punches. This is great practice for me!

Ending the self promotion, I found an amazing band, Cientificos del Palo, that has an entire album that travels through the Argentine history from 1810 to 2007 2011, with a revisionist (pro-Rosas, pro-Perón, pro-Kirchnerista) bent. I'm going to use it so much in my classes. Heartily recommended to all fellow Spanish speakers.

Hello all-

As usual, I can't resist using this thread to apprise those not yet acquainted with my website of its myriad delights....

At Toldinstone.com, I explore (mostly ancient) history through buildings and monuments. The highlights of the website, mentioned in previous weeks, are the History of Rome in 15 Buildings and my ongoing Ten Buildings in Turkey series.

But wait, there's more!

I've also created three walking tours. Each tour is accessible in two formats: as a downloadable audio file (for those actually visiting the place discussed) and an illustrated YouTube video for armchair travelers.

The two ancient tours complement other material on the site:

The Roman Forum in the Age of Augustus uses the monuments of the Forum to narrate the birth of the Roman Empire, from the rise of Julius Caesar to the funeral of Augustus.

The Athenian Acropolis in Context tour presents the Classical buildings of the Acropolis (the Parthenon and friends) against the backdrop of society and politics in Periclean Athens.

Just applied to a cataloguing position at a museum I'm very fond of and have Interned at. Hopefully I get the position, I'd get to help save a photographs that are currently unstable nitrate negatives!

One neat thing about Hong Kong is that historical sites tend to be hidden in plain sight. Case in point being the Sun Yat-Sen Historical Trail, a seemingly disjointed set of public art pieces which are erected at locations significant to Sun Yat-Sen, the Revive China Society or the Revolutionary Alliance, leading from the University of Hong Kong to Kom Tong Hall, a former Edwardian mansion and Mormon church since converted into the Sun Yat-Sen Museum. As with many things there are good and bad sides.

On the good side, the variety of art was extremely cool, with a couple of sites having more abstract ideas (one site, for example, is marked by five equidistant pillars in the colours of the five-striped flag of the early republic), and a couple with more direct ones (one includes a reproduction of the paper for the 1886 civil service exams). The temporary exhibit on the Beiyang Warlords at the museum was very well done, and the preservation of the building is also very good (indeed the exhibits on the first floor are dedicated to the building itself and its original proprietor Ho Kam Tong, brother of the famous philanthropist Sir Robert Hotung.)

On the bad side, there was kind of a lack of a unifying narrative. Unless you were already strongly aware of what Sun Yat-Sen was up to, there was really very little to actually say what made each site significant, and because they were out of chronological order some kind of narrative thread felt especially sorely needed. If I were being conspiratorial perhaps there's an acknowledgement of the relative unimportance of Sun in the original revolution, but I won't comment further. The one thing I wish had been mentioned in the context of the 1903 Guangzhou Uprising was the involvement of 洪全福 Hong Tsuen-Fook (Hong Quanfu), nephew of Hong Xiuquan, and the reuse of Taiping symbolism.

Not sure if anyone is necessarily a specialist in the subject but does anyone happen to know why the work of Joseph Camilleri is heavily ciritcized within the historiography of Australia and the Cold War?

I found his work Australian-American Relations: The Web of Dependence (1980) to be particularly useful in understanding the origins of the ANZUS Treaty and in shedding light on why Australia came to be so obedient in catering to American foreign policy in the Global South e.g. Vietnam.

In this picture of an 11 year old boy miner from 1909, its been suggested the pouch in the boys' pocket could be explosives instead of maybe tobacco or something to eat.

I know that regulations were really lax during the early years, but I wouldn't have thought they would allow a person so young/inexperienced to handle explosives because of the chance for damage to expensive equipment. Could it really have been explosives?

Should I ask for Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army for Christmas?
How accessible is it to a fairly educated layman?

Does anyone have any recommendations of non-fiction books or even web pages that cover worst American presidents throughout US history (ie- Buchanan, Harding, Nixon, Dubya)? Preferably something that covers multiple presidents in a single book, but individual books are OK too. Documentaries that are easily accessible are good too (YouTube, Netflix, etc)

I was never really interested in politics and the US presidency until recently and would like to learn more about the "worst" in US history and what decisions, actions, and surrounding details made them the worst.

I'm looking for anything to do with old (pre ~1930) books, any subreddits, or sites with catalogued books, etc.