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Book Review: Jim E. Brown, Brown on Brown: The Autobiography of Jim E. Brown; Vol 1: The Early Years (2021)
Jim E. Brown’s new autobiographical memoir, Brown on Brown: The Autobiography of Jim E. Brown; Vol 1: The Early Years (2021), is most definitely a book, in the sense that it contains the minimum number of pages required to be considered such, forty-eight. There is a lot of white space on these pages. One must […]
A New Netherlander, or the First New Yorker (?) in Japan
I’ve always been interested in the explorers on the fringe (pun intended) of history. There is Pytheas the Greek, for example, who may have circumnavigated the British Isles in 325 B.C., and then there might have been a Minorite Friar from England who visited Norse Vinland in the 14th century. Had the records of these […]
Tracking the 66 Fulbrighters who Studied History in the Netherlands
The Fulbright program preserves a list of all previous recipients of its grant, and this data is searchable on its website here. So, I selected for all Americans who received Fulbright grants to study history in the Netherlands during their doctoral program of study. I did not include persons whose grants were awarded specifically for […]
Michael J Douma 