Found History

Regular readers of Found History may have noticed that I removed the old tag line “unintentional, unconventional, and amateur history all around us” from the blog. When I first envisioned Found History, I thought I’d use it simply as a place to document my interest in and chronicle my chance encounters with non-professional history, mostly [...]

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I finally took the plunge and switched from MovableType to Wordpress. So far, I’m very happy. I had a few hiccups with with the .htaccess file, I had to manually carry over and re-upload some of my images, and the theme still needs some work, but otherwise I’m really surprised by how easy [...]

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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 few hidden histories. Now I should finally have some time to write about them. Check back here in the next couple days for a [...]

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With help from Ammon, I have finally managed to give Found History the respectable URL it deserves, replacing the ponderous http://chnm.gmu.edu/staff/scheinfeldt/foundhistory/ with the elegant www.foundhistory.org
Please update your bookmarks, links, and news readers.

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Yikes. I can’t believe it’s been more than two months since my last post. I clearly haven’t mastered this blogging thing. I’m working on a couple things now, however, and I’ll try to do a better job of keeping on top of this in the future.

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