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31 January 2026

• 04:5004:50, 31 January 2026 William Logan (hist | edit) [7,043 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with "From Vain Empires (1990), exemplary of the smooth postmodern style of that time. Decadent inhabitation of the encyclopedia of western culture. late 90s disdain for Christianity.")

25 January 2026

• 00:0300:03, 25 January 2026 Aesthetic Poems (hist | edit) [96 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Poems from European aesthetes. Many in translation. Auras often missing from American curricula.")

13 January 2026

• 07:1707:17, 13 January 2026 Taishō (hist | edit) [46 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A Japanese Village Suye Mura by John F. Embree")
• 07:0807:08, 13 January 2026 Heisei (hist | edit) [11,912 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Doing Fieldwork in Japan, Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff, and Victoria Lyon Bestor (co-editors), University of Hawai'i Press, 2003 (ISBN 978-0-8248-2734-2) Neighborhood Tokyo, Theodore C. Bestor, Stanford University Press 1989 and Kodansha International 1990 (ISBN 978-0-8047-1797-7) Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World, Theodore C. Bestor, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004 (ISBN 978-0-520-22024-9) - Globalism The Clash:...") Tag: Visual edit
• 06:5806:58, 13 January 2026 Shōwa (hist | edit) [998 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Sources on Showa era life: A Japanese Village Suye Mura by John F. Embree Beardsley, Hall & Ward – Village Japan (1959) British factory, Japanese factory; the origins of national diversity in industrial relations MITI and the Japanese Miracle (1982)")
• 06:0806:08, 13 January 2026 Meiji (hist | edit) [50,340 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Sources on Meiji:")
• 05:5505:55, 13 January 2026 Japanese History (hist | edit) [40,242 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with " This overview is intended to take a year for secondary students. '''Ancient Japan:''' Core Lessons: Expanded: '''Heian:''' Core Lessons: Expanded: '''Kamakura:''' Core Lessons: Expanded: '''Sengoku:''' Core Lessons: Expanded: '''Tokugawa:''' Core Lessons: Expanded: '''Meiji:''' Core Lessons: Expanded: '''Taisho:''' Core Lessons: Expanded: '''Showa:''' Core Lessons: Expanded: '''Heisei:''' Core Lessons: Expanded: Notes to Be So...") Tag: Visual edit

3 January 2026

• 22:0422:04, 3 January 2026 Fairy Lore (hist | edit) [37,077 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== The Secret Commonwealth of Elves == AN ESSAY OF The Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and, for the most Part,) Invisible People, <ins>heretofoir going</ins> under the name of Elves, Faunes, and Fairies, or the lyke, among the Low-Country Scots, as they are described by those who have the Second Sight; and now, to occasion further Inquiry, collected and compared, by a Circumspect Inquirer residing among the Scottish-Irish in Scotland. Secret Commonwealth, O...") Tag: Visual edit

1 January 2026

• 22:1822:18, 1 January 2026 Michael's Commonplaces (hist | edit) [2,135 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with "While in many ways this whole wiki is a commonplace book for me, it seems fitting for me to set aside a page as a reminder to myself of what I want the substance of my teaching to be. Material and anecdotes and illustrations and great books and artworks come and go, but every teacher should have a core that every student should walk away from understanding == The Word of God == Revelation 5:8-10: And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twent...") Tag: Visual edit

31 December 2025

• 19:3419:34, 31 December 2025 Capriccios (hist | edit) [239 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with ". examples . Piranesi . modern contrast: blame! ; 20th c architectural fantasies? creative application: drawing your own fantasy homes and architecture; get the student thinking about how they psychologically inhabit different buildings") Tag: Visual edit

22 December 2025

• 22:4022:40, 22 December 2025 Royal Saints (hist | edit) [344 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Important to think of in terms of Christendom, authority, and holiness. Good King Wenceslaus: Stories Song (sufjan stevens version) Movie St. Edward the Confessor St. Edmund the Martyr St. Margaret of Scotland St. Olaf St. Stephen of Hungary St. Tamar the Great St. Boris the Baptizer St. Vladimir St. Olga of Kiev") Tag: Visual edit

20 December 2025

• 20:4020:40, 20 December 2025 1960s Science Fiction (hist | edit) [3,225 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with "  - _b_O I d Hundredth_b_ e (Earthsea 1) Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber - A Wizard of Earthsea e (Hainish 4) LeGuin, Ursula K - The Left Hand of Darkness e (Pern 1) McCaffrey, Anne - Dragonflight e (Ringworld 1) Niven, Larry - Ringworld IT 1964 New York World's Fair 1965 - Attractions - General Motors - Page Six e 1968 if mag e 1540157347-HarlanEllison-lHaveNoMouthandlMustScream e A_Boy_and_his_DognEllison e a_clock-work_orange e Aldiss - Hothouse c An Uneven Showcase of 196...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:4701:47, 20 December 2025 World Cultures (hist | edit) [1,917 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Cosmopolitanism How to carry yourself in global professional society around many different peoples, without compromising your Christian or American values Exposure to world literature and cultures International relations, geography, post-colonialism, area studies ... for the conservative evangelical Understanding modern institutions and academia Political philosophy") Tag: Visual edit

15 December 2025

• 00:5400:54, 15 December 2025 Silly Poems (hist | edit) [721 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with " James Jarrett (trans) - 12th c A gift of butter I got a gift of butter, now Good butter it was claimed to be I don't think it was from a cow And if it was, it cowed me A beard was growing on the stuff A goatish beard without a doubt Ah. it was sickly, sour and rough With poison juices seeping out Ah, it was slick. ah, it was grey I don't think any goat produced it I had to face it every day Oh, how I wish I had refused it The salts a thing it never knew...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:5200:52, 15 December 2025 The Tain (hist | edit) [38 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Warp Spasm - Thomas Kinsella trans") Tag: Visual edit

7 November 2025

• 04:4504:45, 7 November 2025 Ellis Islanders (hist | edit) [226 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum - Tyler Anbinder")
• 04:2904:29, 7 November 2025 The Malaise (hist | edit) [730 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Oil Crisis Jimmy Carter Crime in cities New York's decline and rise Sugrue's Origins of the urban crisis The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood - Stacy Horn")
• 03:2103:21, 7 November 2025 Race to the Sky (hist | edit) [2,111 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with "American Skyscrapers and New York becoming a premier world city Chrysler Building The Wall Street Crash of 1929")

31 October 2025

• 18:1018:10, 31 October 2025 Nature Studies (hist | edit) [76 bytes] Michael Thomas Jones (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Primary School Nature Studies. Documentaries: Paddle to the Sea.") Tag: Visual edit