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This Day in History 1/24: Caligula is assassinated
It must be we here are obsessed with individuals drunk with power: Bloomberg, Rhee, and now the Roman emperor Caligula. Today, on January 24, 41 CE, Caligula was assassinated by his palace guard, and...
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A Dear John Letter to my Textbooks
Dear NYC Social Studies Core Curriculum Textbooks published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, This is a difficult letter for me to write…and an even more difficult letter for you to read, so I hope that...
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ORBIS: The Coolest Map of the Roman Empire Ever, thanks to Stanford University
ORBIS view, courtesy of Stanford University If all roads led to Rome, then how many roads must a man walk down to get to Rome… or Athens…or Alexandria…or Jerusalem for that matter? The folks at our...
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The Story of Papal Names; or, Why is there no pope named Jimbo?
John XXIII (1881-1963), A great Pope, a not so original name (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It’s hard to believe that the supreme pontiff, the personification of Christ on Earth, was once called Fabian....
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Video for the Classroom: A Tour through Ancient Rome, courtesy of Khan...
This is the type of history video Khan Academy needs! A Tour Through Ancient Rome is a collaboration between Khan and the Rome Reborn project, an initiative to create digital models of Rome from its...
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