History News in May

Mary Grabar critiques Howard Zinn and the New York Times’  1619 project.

Matt Ridley explains how innovation happened. On HumanProgress.org.

They even sent children by mail. National Geographic tells the history of the U. S. Post Office.

Jared Diamond writes about “The Germs that Transformed History.” In the Wall Street Journal (behind a paywall).

“[The Black Death’s] immediate effect on Western Europe’s economy and trade was disastrous. Paradoxically, though, its long-term impact was positive.”

Historian George Nash puts the pandemic in perspective. On National Review.

Michael J. Douma reviews William Caferro’s book Teaching History.

Irish pandemic gifts to Choctaw Indians echo Choctaw’s 1847 gift to famine-ridden Ireland. In the Washington Post‘s “Retropolis.”

Read more about the Choctaw/Ireland gifts in the New York Times and in Rabbi Marc Gellman’s Sunday column.

Gerrymandering has a long history in North Carolina. On NC State’s blog, Brick-by-Brick.

Where writing was invented in 3200 B.C.:  HumanProgress.org discusses Uruk in southern Iraq in its second “Centers of Progress” article.

Jericho: the world’s first city? HumanProgress.org discusses Jericho in the first installment of its “Centers of Progress” series.

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