The First Creation Story, the Most Recent Creation Story

Traditionally, "history" refers to the era after writing (at least writing we can read). Thus, history begins in ~3300 BC. The periods before that - anatomically modern humans or not - are pre-history. I could start with writing, but it would be almost aggressively unsatisfactory. Too many interesting events - scraps, hints, relics of a …

A Kind of Introduction

The blog you are reading is about history. I'm not a historian, and the majority of content here will be taken directly from people who actually know what they're talking about. Here is what happened: I realized that I knew almost nothing about the past. Some basics, of course, courtesy of a good American education …

Choose Your Fighter

How to use this: Below are three options for navigating the content of this site. The full archive will be a list of every article by chronological order of events. The second links to subarchives by era, each of which lists articles roughly chronologically with occasional jumps to maintain cultural continuity. The third is a …