The Shadowland Journal: December 2016

Sunday, December 25, 2016

Wishing you glorious holidays and the happiest of New Years

The Grand Canal and Santa Maria della Salute in Venice last week.

Saturday, December 24, 2016

ICYMI - Some Fascinating History for Holiday Reading

Angels of the Resistance

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/11/angels-of-the-resistance-and-a-serial-killer-in-nazi-occupied-paris.html

The Secret Agent Shrink vs. The Nazis

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/12/the-shrink-as-secret-agent-jung-hitler-and-the-oss.html

The Socialite Spy Who Played So Dumb She Outsmarted the Nazis

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/25/the-socialite-spy-who-played-so-dumb-she-outsmarted-the-nazis.html

The Slave Who Stole the Reb Codes

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/23/the-slave-who-stole-the-confederate-codes-and-a-rebel-warship.html

The Black Spies in the Confederate White House [need to change article in hed and the woman in the picture is not in fact the woman we are writing about, whose photo does no exist)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/19/the-black-spies-in-a-confederate-white-house.html

The ‘Spider’ Who Nearly Wrecked the CIA

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/27/my-lunch-with-the-spider-who-nearly-wrecked-the-cia.html

The Second Empire Strikes Back

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/20/the-second-empire-strikes-back-in-the-must-see-show-of-paris-this-season.html

Les Tuileries: The Phantom Palace of Paris

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/13/les-tuileries-the-phantom-palace-of-paris.html

Monday, December 12, 2016

Bringing History Into the Present at The Daily Beast

As I looked back over the stories I've written for The Daily Beast this year, I was struck by how many of them were historical. Most were published under the rubrics of our regular Cloak & Dagger and Lost Masterpieces features, which are long reads that run on the weekends. But most of them also have some relevance to current events, especially the resurgence of fascism and Nazism, whether we call the new movements white nationalism, the alt-right, or just Donald Trump on Twitter.