The piece quotes Tom Holland. Who is Tim? The piece was very interesting, and it's related to some issues that I've been thinking about--still in the consultation phase cogitation phase.
There's a link to our Tim Miller at Bulwark right above this: "1. God Shed His Wrath On Thee Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the House, might represent the party of Great PatriotsтДв but he sure doesnтАЩt seem to think America is that great. " It's from Tim's article on Triad dated 11/20/23.
Thank Google! A historian's or any other researcher's godsend. It amazes me what I can find without spending literally years in a library researching often esoteric facts. Yeah, there's garbage too. But for straight forward facts, like laws of various states about all kinds of things to the daily weather in 1949 in any state of the Union (and foreign places as well) to how long to drive old non-highway roads in 1955 to how many cow-calf pairs on 10,000 acres using rotational daily grazing to passenger-cargo freighters rooms in 1949 to whatever (almost) my head desires . . . And it's free. Hell, I'd even pay for it, like I do for Newspapers.com for hundreds of towns/cities papers back to almost any year I want.
I think it's kind of like dog training. Some of us can get Google to do tricks and some of us not so much. My current favorite research assistant is Microsoft Copilot located in the upper right-hand corner of Edge. Sometimes you have to ask a question several different ways to get what you're looking for. When I was doing a research project on the early 20th century, I used newspaper.com very frequently.
I fell for newspapers.com when I started researching life in 1949 US for a story I was thinking of. I couldn't believe what I kept finding. There are gaps, but for a slice of life on food prices, house prices, ads, heck, almost anything, it's heaven. Also pinterest has tons of info as well. As for google, I can honestly say I've never been disappointed. Sometimes, okay a lot of times, the sheer volume of info out there leads me to research overload. :-) And I have to consciously tell my brain to stop already!
Eva, you sure have some research skills!
BTW, given your background, you might find the following interesting: https://markpshea.com/2024/05/07/its-not-christians-vs-secularists/#respond
I have clicked on it, and I will definitely read it. Thanks for the recommendation.
And he's quoting Tim! Which I didn't notice at first. LOL.
The piece quotes Tom Holland. Who is Tim? The piece was very interesting, and it's related to some issues that I've been thinking about--still in the consultation phase cogitation phase.
There's a link to our Tim Miller at Bulwark right above this: "1. God Shed His Wrath On Thee Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the House, might represent the party of Great PatriotsтДв but he sure doesnтАЩt seem to think America is that great. " It's from Tim's article on Triad dated 11/20/23.
thx
Mark wasn't always a Catholic, so he's got quite an extensive background.
Thank Google! A historian's or any other researcher's godsend. It amazes me what I can find without spending literally years in a library researching often esoteric facts. Yeah, there's garbage too. But for straight forward facts, like laws of various states about all kinds of things to the daily weather in 1949 in any state of the Union (and foreign places as well) to how long to drive old non-highway roads in 1955 to how many cow-calf pairs on 10,000 acres using rotational daily grazing to passenger-cargo freighters rooms in 1949 to whatever (almost) my head desires . . . And it's free. Hell, I'd even pay for it, like I do for Newspapers.com for hundreds of towns/cities papers back to almost any year I want.
I think it's kind of like dog training. Some of us can get Google to do tricks and some of us not so much. My current favorite research assistant is Microsoft Copilot located in the upper right-hand corner of Edge. Sometimes you have to ask a question several different ways to get what you're looking for. When I was doing a research project on the early 20th century, I used newspaper.com very frequently.
I fell for newspapers.com when I started researching life in 1949 US for a story I was thinking of. I couldn't believe what I kept finding. There are gaps, but for a slice of life on food prices, house prices, ads, heck, almost anything, it's heaven. Also pinterest has tons of info as well. As for google, I can honestly say I've never been disappointed. Sometimes, okay a lot of times, the sheer volume of info out there leads me to research overload. :-) And I have to consciously tell my brain to stop already!