Monthly Archives: January 2025

Newberry Summer Institutes in Paleography

The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library will be offering Summer Institutes in Spanish Paleography and/or Nahuatl/Nawat during Summer 2025. Northern Illinois University graduate students in History and the Humanities are encouraged to apply to participate in a … Continue reading

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Publishing Your First Article: Webinar

The Renaissance Society of America will be holding a professional development webinar on “Publishing Your First Article (and the Unspoken Rules of Publishing You Need to Know).” This webinar will provide advice on how to prepare a research paper for … Continue reading

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Remembering the Storming of the U.S. Capitol

Today, I am remembering the Storming of the U.S. Capitol on 6 January 2021. The Storming of the U.S. Capitol was an organized paramilitary attack that represented a coup de force (or coup de majesté)—essentially an insurrection from above—carried out … Continue reading

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