Hello and Welcome, Fellow History Lovers. I hope all is well and your summer isn’t a boiling hellhole. This Seams Interesting is a regular column focused on overlooked, weird, and forgotten people and events throughout history. It’s no secret that I love African history (I have over 30 books specifically on it). I’ve already covered
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Hello and Welcome, Fellow History Lovers. This Seams Interesting is a monthly column highlighting weird, overlooked, and ignored people and events throughout history. Every 4 years, the very best of the very best of the very best in the wide world of sports compete for the gold. Nearly every nation is represented in this titanic
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Hello and Welcome, I’m Spencer Seams. This Seams Interesting is a monthly column highlighting weird, overlooked, and ignored people and events throughout history. March’s topic is… HASEKURA TSUNENAGA: The Pope’s Favorite Samurai The Samurai, legendary warriors that actually did a lot more than fight with katanas. They were more or less government employees
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Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. December’s topic is… TSAREVNA SOPHIA ALEKSEYEVNA ROMANOVA: Peter the Great’s Lesser Known but Much More Interesting Sister When most people think of the Russian Tsars the names that pop up
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Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. October’s topic is… MONGOLIA UNDER BOGD KHAN: Two Revolutions for the Price of One When it comes to the Mongolian history, most people stop at the death of Genghis Khan
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