Many people have commented on the disappearance of music from music television. Fewer people have looked closely at what has been installed in its place. Whereas music videos were once mainstays of MTV and VH1, historical programming increasingly dominates these channels, especially VH1. The move towards historical programming at VH1 began in 1997 with Behind [...]
Entries from December 2005
I want my HTV?
December 28th, 2005 · 1 Comment
Tags: Ambient History · Television
History and the New Year
December 21st, 2005 · No Comments
When I launched Found History over the weekend, I didn’t fully appreciate the timing. It only occurred to me yesterday in the supermarket that late-December is a great time to start collecting examples of non-professional history. For the next two weeks or so, we will be bombarded by year-end retrospectives, “Best of 2005″ lists, “Top [...]
Tags: Ambient History · Anniversaries · Holidays
Finding History
December 17th, 2005 · No Comments
With the launch of CHNM blogs this week, I thought I’d better get in the game. In fact, I have been thinking about this site for quite a while. Since at least my undergradute days, I’ve been interested not only in history and historiography, but more specifically in the kinds of history done by non-professionals [...]
Tags: Favorites · Uncategorized
