"Human nature is the same in every age if we make allowance for the difference of customs & Education, so that we learn to know ourselves by studying the opinions and passions of others" -William Bradford (paraphrasing Hume) in a letter to James Madison, October [1772], original in the collection of the Historical Society of [...]
Tartan societies
Thoughts on the Scottish-American clan fascination.
why a magpie?
As a jewelry-loving girl whose first name starts with M, I was nicknamed 'magpie' by my family long ago. It is, at this point, a fairly good decription of my approach to history - not that I gather everything shiny, but that I'm willing to take sticks and grass as well as silver to build [...]