Shenandoah University History Club

Continuing to recognize Black History Month in our community, here is a photo from the 1930s of the Berryville Fast Friends Baseball Team of Josephine City. The Berryville Fast Friends had a clubhouse where the community could come for dances and socials. The team raised money for equipment and uniforms and played black teams from Bristol or Lewisville.

From left to right in the rear of the photograph are: Jesse Dorsey, Edward Robinson, Benjamin Paige, William Henry Paige, Robert Williams, and Ralph Jones. In the front are: Henry Blair, Fairfax Lampkins, Paul Liggans, Sammy Liggans, and Thomas Mason.

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This is wild!

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"Nobody cares about your blog!" The title of my blog today is a quotation from an email I received yesterday from Noemi De Santis of RECEPTIO, the Research Centre for European Philological Tradition (website here).

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63636641

Gold coin proves 'fake' Roman emperor was real The coin bearing the name of Sponsian was considered apocryphal and had been locked away in a museum cupboard.

Doctor Hofmann here ...

Some of you might know that I have been spending part of my sabbatical as a Fellow in the "Migration and Mobility in the Early Middle Ages" research group at the University of Tübingen. It's been amazing so far, but after two years of COVID, with no opportunities for research, my research skills are a bit rusty!

One of the things I have been doing is catching up to new software developments. Zotero (something anybody who has taken HIST 201 with me knows is my go-to bibliography and note management program) has had a major upgrade -- including an iOS app that syncs with your library AND allows you to mark up PDFs AND takes your mark-ups and turns them into separate notes!

While looking for documentation on the new version, I've been discovering all sorts of new tools, including the Zettelkasten system and a program called Obsidian, which allows you to create notes that link to each other in multiple ways, so that you can see how your ideas from studying and research connect to each other. The way it works also looks like it would be great for creative projects, like mapping out RPG campaigns or writing stories.

I will put links to some of those videos later, but today, I thought I would post a video that I am going to start including in my syllabuses for every course. I think it's a super helpful reminder for when and why to take notes, no matter what level you are at!

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Danish PSA for wearing bicycle helmets is the best Viking movie in 63 years | Boing Boing This short film from the Danish Road Safety Council reminds all careful pillagers that a helmet is essential when visiting England.