​I’ve been discussing the wide variety of modules I offer on FractalPast. The other day I posted about some of the courses I had taken, as the foundation of my historical knowledge. I’ll be making another post next week about the many courses I taught in my more than twenty-year teaching career. But my research also provides another entrée point for expertise in a wide variety of historical fields and subfields. Though seemingly a narrow topic—US-Netherlands relations in the fifteen or so years after World War II—my book actually required that I familiarize myself with a host of distinct historical fields. Many of these overlap, of course, in some cases barely comprising a subfield. But every one of the following subject areas enjoys a robust literature, and the scrupulous researcher is obligated to engage with all of them:

I’m pleased to announce the launch of a new venture: FractalPast online history courses. Editing services will continue, but it seems to me there is a need and a thirst for something new. We live in an age of AI slop, of aggressive propaganda, and stultifying algorithms that constrain the spirit and assault the mind. I think people are hungering for something real, something grounded, something that can help anchor us in unsettled times. And there is no better way to face the present and the future than to understand the past.