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The Historian - Debut Novel by Elizabeth Kostova

By: Rachel Turner | 2010-04-01 | Book Reviews
Join a young girl's journey to find her father and find out the truth about her mother. In The Historian, the debut novel by Elizabeth Kostova, we start off meeting a women who tells she is compelled to share a story which happened thirty six years ago. read more

Meteorologists versus Historians

By: Ricky Clarke | 2011-07-25 | Careers
Besides the fact that these two professions seem to be drenched in excitement and mystery, there are plenty of other factors they have in common: great job outlooks, for starters, and wonderful paychecks, to continue with. Sounds appealing? It should, we are talking about some pretty intriguing careers that should reunite passion and necessity and turn them into one complete and ultimate reason to pick one or the other. read more

Historians Interested In Digital Scholarship

By: Emily Sismour | 2010-12-11 | Reference & Education
Many prominent historians have hopped on the digital bandwagon. A new survey has found that most of the 4,000 historian respondents are ready to try forms of digital scholarship like "interactive maps or online databases." However, the number of journals interested in publishing this new, digitalized work is relatively non-existent in comparison. read more

Hexham, Northumberland - A Historian's Paradise

By: Simon Haughtone | 2010-03-30 | City Guides
The market town of Hexham, Northumberland, with its population of an estimated 11,139 inhabitants, is located in north east England in Sovereign State of United Kingdom on 54. 97 Degrees North and 2. 10 Degrees West co-ordinates. Hexham is regarded one of the three largest towns in Tynedale region along with Haltwhistle and Prudhoe. read more

A Historian In the Making ~ that's what the newspaper said

By: Terrye Tebbetts | 2011-08-15 | Plastic surgeries
Normally all you hear me write about is breast augmentation or breast implants - not today! read more

Career And Job Opportunities For A Historian

By: brainrobin | 2011-04-15 | College
Contrary to what many people think, Historians have quite a substantial job prospects. For such people, it would be good having a look into the salary, employment, definition, and nature of work, as w... read more

Nautical Historians Enjoy Collecting Atlantic Models

By: George Roy | 2011-06-04 | Hobbies
Atlantic models are a wonderful model that is perfect to be admired by the whole of the family. Real life military boats are crafted deceptively crudely, but they are well oiled machines, and as such their models may be viewed as ‘roughly’ done. This boat does well in a room with many other military ships, especially if all models of the military type are made from metal. The Atlantic read more

A historian's guide to London

By: Carolyn Clayton | 2011-09-07 | Destinations
Nowadays when people visit London all they see is tourists and shoppers for miles ahead of them. read more

Xenophon - Greek Historian, Athenian General and Socratic Philosopher

By: Glen F | 2010-03-27 | Humanities
Xenophon was a Greek soldier and historian. A history of the expedition of the ten thousand Greeks is given in his Anabasis. Xenophon, with great courage and skill, led the retreat from the Tigris to Trapezus, on the Black Sea. Born in Athens, Greece, about 427 B.C. He died in Corinth, Greece, about 355 B.C. read more

Experiencing Libya - A Favorite Travel Destination Of Historians And Anthropologists

By: Ben Pate | 2010-11-20 | Travel & Leisure
As you can see, Libya is an archaeologist's, historian's, and anthropologist's dream. Even if you've never been particularly interested in these subjects just being around these ancient sites will give you a new perspective on the people of our world. read more

5 Steps to Become Your Family Historian and Genealogist

By: Erick D Davis | 2010-04-02 | Crafts
1. Beginning with you, Write your name, birthday, hometown, parents names, spouse if married, date of marriage, place where married, children names and their birthdays. The easiest way to do this is to create a spread sheet with using excel. After you do your own family, do your parents, grandparents and so on. (If you have been married more than once, you will do a sheet for each marriage. You will end up with quite a few sheets before you are done since EACH family group needs a sheet of its own. read more

Know The Reason Why The Ancient Hebrews Consumed So A Lot Of Barley

By: CathyJacobsen | 2010-10-19 | Accessories
Barley is stated by historians to be the oldest of all cultivated grains read more

The History of Shoes

By: Perry Gates | 2012-02-02 | Shoes
The history of shoes is quite possible the most argued amongst fashion historians, the arguments are dramatically varied depending on which expert is doing the talking. read more

250 Years Old and Still Strong Through Qigong - Chinese Martial Artist and Herbalist Li Ching-Yuen!

By: FranWil | 2011-03-25 | Health & Fitness
Not only did the Chinese invent writing, paper,bureaucracy records and record keeping but also History (93 CE sees completion of Records of the Grand Historian, in 103 Volumes, by Ssu Ma Chien). read more

Rating Our Presidents

By: George Ahearn | 2010-04-01 | News and society
Although rating Presidents is somewhat of and academic exercise, this article takes a somewhat subjective look at a recent poll of historians and points out some surprising and funny points that the historians may have missed. read more