Concerning History

Tag: North America

Checking All the Boxes: TNT’s The Alienist

Post author By the Staff
Post date April 23, 2018

Making History, Marking History: The Great Anniversaries of 2018

Depiction of the streets of Berlin during the Revolution.

Post author By the Staff
Post date April 16, 2018

Civilization: Withstanding the Test of Time (With A Few Dark Ages)

Ruins of Carthage — In Civilization, your goal is to build an empire to withstand the test of time.

Post author By Ryan Nadeau
Post date March 12, 2018

Solid, yet Predictable: Dee Rees’s Mudbound

Post author By the Staff
Post date March 5, 2018

Switching Sides: Hell on Wheels, Season 5

"Get me to that finish line!"

Post author By the Staff
Post date January 22, 2018

Mormons! Hell on Wheels, Seasons 3 & 4

The Swede (Christopher Heyerdahl), impersonating a Mormon bishop

Post author By the Staff
Post date January 8, 2018

Looking Back: A 2017 Historical Retrospective

The National Park Service has assured the public that monuments like the Stonewall Jackson statue at Manassas will remain standing at historical sites in perpetuity. Earlier this year, this statue was vandalized by opponents of Confederate iconography. Photograph courtesy of Kevin Lavery.

Post author By the Staff
Post date January 1, 2018

Each Man’s Own War: Hell on Wheels, Seasons 1 & 2

From left to right, Lilly Bell (Dominique McElligott), Thomas 'Doc' Durant (Colm Meaney), Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), & Elam Ferguson (Common)

Post author By the Staff
Post date December 11, 2017

A Nervous World: Present Day Reflections from Austrian History

Post author By Ryan Nadeau
Post date December 4, 2017