Review: When History Is Personal by Mimi Schwartz

Can You Name These Famous Paintings In History?

There's 13 of them. Do you think you can name them all? Take the quiz and let us know how well you do!

Personal history, life stories, memoirs? The words we use matter. |

You may call yourself a personal historian, but is that the term clients use to search online for help with recording their life story or family history? How can we make ourselves more discoverable to the people who are looking for life story writers and personal historians?

Where Are You Going Catholic Church?

I encourage you to listen to my church history podcast Triumphs and Tragedies. I'm not a historian by any stretch, and I'm afraid the podcast is more than rough around the edges. It was simply my attempt to give a quick roller coaster ride through twenty centuries of church history so that we can make better sense

The Little Known History of Transgender Saints

Building Your Personal Altar

An altar is a deeply personal space for reflection, introspection and prayer. We'll show you how to set up your own personal altar.

Why We Need Personal and Congregational Disciplines

Guest, Don Whitney, shares how he distinguishes personal spiritual disciplines from congregational disciplines.

The Surprising History of Smiling

In our blog, we take a look at the surprising history of smiling and how a smile has been seen as both good and bad over the last few centuries.

13 Of The Worst Heartbreaks In Literary History

Anyone who loves books as much as I do knows that sometimes the attachments you form with characters on the page are as strong — or sometimes (maybe embarrassingly) stronger — than the attachments you form with people in your real life. And once you’…

Learning Art History Through Tabloids

An Ode To The Kippah Drawer, A Repository of Jewish History And Artifacts

"There is something truly powerful about a drawer full of Jewish history." Read More

[Pastors’ Blog] When History Becomes Legacy

It’s that time of year when we are expected to indulge in the depth and breadth of our history. Given the arduous and diverse nature of our history, whether shaped in the United States, or o…

Losing Our (Medieval) Religion? The Cost of Not Teaching History.....

What will be the cost of the College Placement board dismissing ancient and medieval history from Advanced Placement tests?

Could Graphic Novels Be The Future Of U.S. History?

It is no secret that graphic novels have been creeping into the social studies curriculum. Possibly the most famous is Maus, about the experiences of a Holocaust survivor. But more and more books are being created and increasingly their timelines are inte

How I Became Obsessed With Personal Development and Why You Should Too

We can all benefit from practicing daily personal development. The rewards are huge for those who invest the time to grow mentally.

The twisted history of Shavuot: Do modern-day Jews have it wrong?

According to the Bible, Shavuot isnt exactly a real holiday. What changed?

Machine Vision Algorithm Chooses the Most Creative Paintings in History

Picking the most creative paintings is a network problem akin to finding super spreaders of disease. That’s allowed a machine to pick out the most creative paintings in history.

Editors’ Choice: Can We Date Revolutions in the History of Literature and Music?

Humanists know the subjects we study are complex. So on the rare occasions when we describe them with numbers at all, we tend to proceed cautiously. Maybe too cautiously. Distant readers have spent a ...

My Chance Encounter with a Woman Who Later Made Jewish History

Recently, as I’ve done for 32 years, I stopped to think about Marilyn Klinghoffer. Although she was briefly a household name, I remember her because she changed my life.

Ghosts In The Sunlight: I Find Women’s Invisible Histories In Old Masters

What if the female characters we’ve come to know from the old masters – the lounging odalisques, the giggling nymphs, the chorus that whispers in the background – present more than a voyeuristic visual feast? What if these characters embody a flickering of female power at work<br>My large-scale oil paintings pull at the shadows of historical works of art and ask what dormant new narratives might be found in the female subjects that inhabit them. What invisible histories might be embedded or…