Talladega Nights
"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed" — Eleanor Roosevelt ... (epigraph from the new Will Ferrell comedy, Talladega Nights)
(Very Nearly) Fighting Over History in the Ohio Senate
Despite media claims, polling data, and bureaucratic number crunching to the contrary, one of the main contentions of Found History is that people care deeply about history—sometimes to the point of fighting
Back in the Saddle
It's been nearly a month since my last post—the result of some project deadlines and a monster NEH proposal—but in that time I nevertheless managed to turn up a
Stand-up History
English stand-up comedian Robert Newman builds his act on history. "The History of Oil" is his very funny, very sarcastic, 45-minute-long examination of British and American involvement in
Adults Only
Digg is running a story called "The best way to learn American history." As a piece of amateur historical work, the link has a place on Found History. However this posting