“Las Vegas: An Unconventional History” is an American Experience 2-part film premiering on PBS November 14 and 15, 2005. Here’s the site. It’s a fun story about a place that seems like a shallow joke. But the beauty of the film is that while there is plenty of goofy kitsch–Rat Pack, 1970s tourism commercials–these segments…
A number of recent books have been published about the history and culture of Iraq, in large part a response to the 2003 invasion and current military situation there. Here’s the link to my review in the Nov/Dec 2005 Archaeology Magazine. I had limited space so was unable to give more props to perhaps my…
So, The point of this blog is to create links to various professional works of mine. As I have time, I’ll also being posting stuff that I’d written before and is floating out there. The justification of this blog is that when people ask me what I “do” I can point them here and then…
Jack Cheng, PhD 