As often as I can, I check the DPRK’s Korean Central News Service for a bit of news from the other side. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be able to learn about things like the “disgusting farce” of the “traitorous acts” reported today: Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) — A spokesman for the Committee for the [...]
The new Asian History Carnival is going up March 5th at Frog in Well, hosted by Jonathan Dresner. Please make your submissions of interesting Asian history related postings to jonathan [at] froginawell dot net. For more on posting guidelines, see the Asian History Carnival homepage.
Welcome to the 2nd bi-monthly Asian History Carnival. Thanks to those who offered submissions to the carnival. I think we have an excellent spread of region and time period but my choices reflect the range of submissions I received for inclusion and the limits of my own online reading. Remember, if you feel your region [...]
Over at Frog in a Well, we are launching our new collaborative Korean history weblog. You can read more about the goals of the site here. I’m going to start it out with a series of postings this week on Western perceptions of Koreans in the late 19th century and colonial period.
Jonathan Dresner has hosted our first Asian History Carnival. This bi-monthly blog carnival will collect excellent blog entries related to Asian history that have appeared online. Check it out and spread the good word. He is also looking for hosts of future carnivals.
I have a very disorganized collection of pictures from my travels that I have linked to in various older postings. They are floating around online but not much fun to hunt down without looking through the archives of this blog as well as over at my homepage. For convenience, I will be keeping links to [...]
The twelfth History Carnival is up at Over at Mode for Caleb. Enjoy some of the interesting postings related to history that have been collected there. Send your nominations for the next History Carnival to willisms[at]gmail[dot]com as it will be hosted at WILLisms on August 1st.
The street map searching feature works for Japan now! Here, for example is the street map of Lucky House where I lived for most of my almost two years in Japan 2002-2004 (My Waseda friend Andrew is now living there). It even shows many of the convenience stores I came to know so well… Unfortunatley [...]
Siris has done a wonderful job with the best History Carnival yet. Lots of great links to blog postings related to history on the web written in the past few weeks.
Check out the 10th History Carnival, a collection of links to articles related to history in the blogging world. I found most interesting a connected series of postings at Chapati Mystery related to empire: 1. Canned Food, 2. The E Word, 3. The Case of the Americans, 4. Absent-Minded Imperialism and the Doughnut Effect, 5. [...]