Archive - JDBCOM in your In-Box

Memorial Day 2026

Not all memorials are honored by everyone, and not for good reasons.

May 25 • John Beatty

Building the Panama Canal

The four-century project took the lives and fortunes of tens of thousands.

May 23 • John Beatty

History As Make Believe

Every consumer of history has encountered fictions; some writers are blatant about it.

May 16 • John Beatty

Hopes, Fears, and Astrology

Early Modern Europe and ancient superstitions

May 9 • John Beatty

Roots of Samurai Rage And Fear X

May 2 • John Beatty

April 2026

The Invention of Lying

Think you know how? Think again...

Apr 25 • John Beatty

Climate Change and the "Experts"

A lesson in the nature and purpose of "authority."

Apr 18 • John Beatty

Forgers Hall of Fame

A Brief History of Literary Fakes and Frauds

Apr 11 • John Beatty

The Roots of Samurai Rage and Fear IX

Gekokujō, Earthquakes and Domestic Chaos

Apr 4 • John Beatty

March 2026

Forgeries, Fakes and Phantom Time

How and why the past is described as just...weird.

Mar 28 • John Beatty

Fighting with Fire

Strategies and Tactics of Siege Warfare to 1600

Mar 21 • John Beatty

St. Patrick's Day 2026

Mar 14 • John Beatty

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