I've been featured on my departmental web site! Feels like a career milestone. www.uu.edu/dept/history...

Taught my 20-month old son to say "bekos" today. #LetTheReaderUnderstand

I have been interviewed about my award-winning article on Sennacherib's assassination in Mar Shiprim, the newsletter of the International Association of Assyriology! iaassyriology.com/97833-2/

I'm curious how you came to the conclusion that killing someone with a sling is an impossible feat?

I'm very confused how this totally incorrect piece of information about slave status in the ancient world not being hereditary entered into the discourse. This is far from the first place I've seen it.

Shocks even more people to know that Judges 3:6 pretty explicitly acknowledges this.

What my students are reading this fall for "History and Historians," a course that introduces history majors and minors to philosophies of history:

Incoming college freshmen this fall were two years old when Iron Man was released in theaters. And that's what I don't reference movies in lectures.

Nope. This is what I get. Even though it's the same URL as if I searched for it and got to the correct page.

Does anyone know how to get permalinks to items in the British Museum online catalog to work? They seem to instantly go dead unless you use the search function to find the item again. Very problematic for putting a link in a bibliography or even taking notes.