Author Archives: michaeljdouma

Does the Super Bowl Come Later Every Year? (let’s look at the data)
Super Bowl LIX (that is, Super Bowl 59) is coming up, and if you are like me, you might be thinking, “isn’t it pretty late in the year for the Super Bowl? I mean, it’s almost spring, right? Well, I decided the plot the date of the progression of the Super Bowl over time and […]

Presentation for the Holland (Michigan) Museum
My presentation on “The Legend of the Black Dutchman”

A Brief History of the Origins of Croquet in America
Unlike the obscure origins of most other American sports, Croquet’s beginning in the United States is quite definite. Well, that is if we believe a newspaper advertisement from 1863, in which Daniel O. Goodrich, proprietor of the Boston Bazaar, claimed to have introduced the game to the American public two years earlier, in 1861. […]

JP Morgan
A business school student tells me he has an interview with J.P. Morgan. Me the historian: “Wait, J.P. Morgan is still alive?”

My article on Dutch-speaking runaway slaves in Geschiedenis Magazine
The full article in Dutch is here.