Short Archive
Personally, I sometimes just want a short, text-based archive rather than the thumbnail archive that Substack gives by default. In case anyone else’s like me, I’ve made this.
This needs to be kept up to date manually, so it’ll sometimes be slightly out of date.
2024
In Memoriam: Vernor Vinge - April 6, 2024
Shakespeare and Tragedy in Light of Easter - March 30, 2024
Short Reviews for March 2024 - March 23, 2024
The History of Copyright - March 16, 2024
Columbus Turning the Tiller of History - March 9, 2024
It's been a year and a half - March 8, 2024
Friendship as Strong Reality - March 2, 2024
Short Reviews for February 2024 - February 24, 2024
Wikiwalking in Roman Schools - February 17, 2024
Against Elleman on Japanese Internment - February 10, 2024
Offstage Villains and Telling a Balanced Story - February 3, 2024
Short Reviews for January 2024 - January 27, 2024
Medieval Historical Fantasy - January 20, 2024
The Short Fairy-Tale - January 13, 2024
Framing the Reconstruction Amendments - January 6, 2024
2023
Short Reviews for December 2023 - December 30, 2023
Theology in Story December 23, 2023
The Boston Tea Party December 16, 2023
Cross-Country Cutscenes and Dramatic Unity December 9, 2023
The Treaty of Versailles December 2, 2023
Short Reviews for November 2023 November 25, 2023
What Talking Animals Can Say November 18, 2023
When the Guns Fell Silent November 11, 2023
In-Universe Metafiction November 4, 2023
Short Reviews for October 2023 October 28, 2023
In Defense of Reading Whole Books October 21, 2023
What Makes a History Book Good October 14, 2023
Narrators and Perspectives October 7, 2023
The Burr Conspiracy in History and Story September 30, 2023
Short Reviews for September 2023 September 23, 2023
The Spirit of Exploration September 16, 2023
Early-Installment Weirdness September 9, 2023
It's been a year September 8, 2023
The Thin Line Between Science Fiction and Fantasy September 2, 2023
Short Reviews for August 2023 August 26, 2023
Augustus Caesar and the Masquerade of the Republic August 19, 2023
Don’t Deride the Masses August 12, 2023
Goodreads and the Hard Problem of Book Recommendations August 5, 2023
Short Reviews for July 2023 July 29, 2023
The Whiskey Rebellion and the Tensions of the West July 22, 2023
Imagining Traffic Jams In a Far Universe July 15, 2023
Constraints as the Writer's Friend July 8, 2023
The Madness of Yankee Doodle July 1, 2023
Short Reviews for June 2023 June 24, 2023
Emancipation on the Ground Level June 17, 2023
Boston and the Changes of Modernity June 10, 2023
The Late Partial Redemption of Stephen A. Douglas June 3, 2023
Golden Age science fiction May 27, 2023
Short Reviews for May 2023 May 20, 2023
A Modern Kids' Adventure Story May 13, 2023
Paul Revere in the Story of History May 6, 2023
Abandoned Series April 29, 2023
Short Reviews for April 2023 April 22, 2023
How It Allegorically Happened April 15, 2023
Visions Towards Utopia April 8, 2023
Guest Reviews by Hobbits April 1, 2023
Short Reviews for March 2023 March 25, 2023
The Advantages of Fantasy March 18, 2023
Helping Your Protagonist Shine March 11, 2023
It's been six months March 8, 2023
Why Did France Fall? March 4, 2023
Poor Lenses For a Story February 25, 2023
The Election of 1800 February 18, 2023
Short reviews for February February 11, 2023
Some Thoughts on Sequels February 4, 2023
The Kings Who Didn't Do Anything January 28, 2023
Rigging a Thought Experiment January 21, 2023
Memories of Childhood Storytelling & Memories of Childhood Storytelling, Part Two January 7-14, 2023
2022
Transitions in History December 31, 2022
Speculations about a "Last Battle" movie December 24, 2022
Short reviews for December December 17, 2022
Memories of Mid-Century Kids' Books December 10, 2022
Gaps in History December 3, 2022
The Extravagant Details of Biography November 26, 2022
The Story of Thanksgiving As a Story November 19, 2022
Local or Systemic Moral Ambiguity November 12, 2022
Showing Shakespeare's Talent Without Meaning To November 5, 2022
Constantine and his Legacy October 29, 2022
The Smallpox Eradication Campaign October 22, 2022
So Many Worlds, So Few Good Books About Them October 15, 2022
Impure Gold, But Still Gold October 8, 2022
The Giver: A Simple, Cozy Dystopia October 1, 2022
Gangster Government September 24, 2022
Telling the Story of a Social Movement September 17, 2022
The Depths of Middle-Earth September 10, 2022
On Story September 9, 2022