I’m excerpting below the introduction that Marian Feldman and I wrote for Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter. I’d meant to do this earlier to help Googlers find articles that are in the book, but it makes sense to do it now, too, because we will be having…
Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter edited by Jack Cheng and Marian H. Feldman, published by Brill, 2007. More details as we get closer to the actual physical book.
by James McManusOkay, so I’m a little late getting into the poker phenomenon. (Or was I early? I did buy that poker table with Pete, although we tend to play dumb games that favor luck and not the new “official” poker game, no-limit hold ’em.) When I was working on the American Experience Las Vegas…
Andrew Smith is a British magazine writer. Naturally, his writing is self-deprecating and full of pop cultures references. He was also born in New York and grew up in California in the 1960s and got caught up in the space race, especially the Apollo program. His non-fiction book Moon Dust has a terrific premise. After…
The latest web site I wrote for American Experience is for the film “Race to the Moon” about the Apollo 8 mission that was the first to send me out of earth’s orbit and around the moon. The film premieres on Halloween, Monday October 31, 2005 and is really good. Here’s a photo taken by…
“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…
Jack Cheng, PhD 