The Who, What, When, & Wheres of #history are relatively straightforward. Interpreting history is where the greatest disagreements occur. Is it possible to take the spin out of historical interpretation? Not likely as long as power pulls history in self-serving directions.

I came across the #ArenaChapel painted by #Giotto while reading through #WillDurant's volume on the #Renaissance. Thanks to #YouTube and #GoogleMaps, we can virtually visit noteworthy historical sites. #LTTL #history #Italy #Padua #Dante #Inferno

1535: "Wolsey at apogee had never had so many long and grasping fingers in so many juicy pies" (#WillDurant on #OliverCromwell). #LTTL #history #Henry8 #England

When the #Pilgrims left England for #Holland in 1608, they escaped the #Bubonic plague that hit #London in 1609. #Mayflower #ChurchofEngland #Leiden

Between 1619 and 1622, The #VirginiaCompany would send 3.6K settlers to America of which 3K (83%) would die during this time. By comparison, #COVID19 would have killed 12 people over this same span, at our rates.

I'm reading through Philbrick's "#Mayflower" which set sail from #Plymouth 400 years ago on Sept. 6. #pilgrims #puritans #VirginiaCompany #MerchantAdventurers #WilliamBradford

Yesterday, legendary #Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully joined Twitter. When he first became interested in baseball after game 2 of the 1936 #WorldSeries, #FDR was president. #MLB #baseball #LTTL #vinscully

John Smith's General Historie of Virginia (1624): "This dear bought land with so much blood and cost, that onley made some few rich, and all the rest losers." Aren't you glad we left those days behind us???

Did you know that #HenryFord was born during the American #CivilWar? He was 5 months old during #AbrahamLincoln's #GettysburgAddress. #LTTL #EmilyDickinson #7thDayAdventists #Albemarle

Just in case you were wondering, it takes about a month to #reincarnate. #HenryFord claimed to have been killed during the battle at #Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863) and then was born again (differenty type) on July 30. Now we know. #CivilWar

It took a while, but I have most of my 16th C. European leaders lined up. Now I can start entering notes as I read through #WillDurant's work on the #Reformation. #LTTL #Calvin #Catholicism

Netflix and...adding Prime Ministers to my ruler columns. I wonder how long #Spain will continue supporting its monarchy. #LTTL #DonaldTrump #PopeFrancis #EmmanuelMacron #AngelaMerkel #PedroSanchez #QueenElizabethII

Attempting to enter the Chinese kings and emperors for the past 2K years in my timeline. It's a bit like trying to remove and organize the fibers wrapped around my vacuum's roller brush. #LTTL

Timeline map of the day: New Hampshire. google.com/maps/d/edit?mi…

Today's featured Google Map is Rhode Island: google.com/maps/d/edit?mi…

Does having Garth Brooks future burial spot behind your back yard increase your property value? Today's map features sites in Oklahoma: google.com/maps/d/edit?mi…

Today's map features Alabama including a marker for the Aliceville Museum with its focus on WW2 POWs. Camp Aliceville once hosted 12K+ German POWs. It was the largest POW camp in the Southeaster USA. google.com/maps/d/edit?mi…

Today's featured map is Montana. The olive green markers through the central of the state are some of the 50 Hutterite colonies in Montana. google.com/maps/d/edit?mi…

Completed in 1940, the Fort Peck Dam created the 5th largest artificial lake in the USA with the coastline of the Fort Peck Lake being longer than the coastline of California. See the Montana map at google.com/maps/d/edit?mi….

The Superior Hotel in Superior, Montana, was the first hotel to place Gideon Bibles in rooms. See the rest of my Montana map at google.com/maps/d/edit?mi….