History blogs

Allow me to recommend the "Blogs of History" section of my sidebar. I added these links recently, but they have already proven their worth. Most are the blogs of graduate students or professors of history. Some entries are highly arcane, others very accessible.

Gnostical Turpitude, for example, recently published two entries that LeTourneau students will surely appreciate. The first relates a New York Times report on a Princeton engineering student who "mathematically analyzed the fiction published in The New Yorker." The second explains what George Lucas could learn from Peter Jackson.

This contrast between The Lord of the Rings and the Star Wars prequels, I believe, strongly favors Jackson: Jackson injects moments of swashbuckling fun into a movie series that's usually far more realistic and serious, while Lucas casts a dull pallor over a series that's supposed to be light-hearted fun. If only that were the primary flaw in Lucas's work...