Non-Boring History | Annette Laing | Substack

Join real historian Annette and her wicked sense of humor for a journey through history, historians' work, and how historians think.

Apr 12, 2021

And Now We're Three!

NOTE FROM ANNETTE Non-Boring History Marks a Milestone! Plus News for Canadian Nonnies

Apr 13 •

Desert Mountain Water

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Join California's Agua Caliente Indians for a wild water ride through the past, as they celebrate splashing into the future. . …

Apr 9 •

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Democracy in Deep Doo-Doo 💩 (1)

Jan 2 • Annette Laing

The Man Who Told the Puritans "Up Yours" (1)

Jul 29, 2023 • Annette Laing

A Difficult Woman Figures Things Out

Jun 6, 2023 • Annette Laing

The Great Exhibition Is Open

Sep 23, 2023 • Annette Laing

It Never Rains in Southern California

NOTE FROM ANNETTE But When It Does, Man, It Pours. And Even Snows. ALSO: Heads Up for Upcoming Nonnie Meet-Up Announcements!

Apr 6 •

Ghosts of the West

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Ghost Towns, Ghost Rock, and the Ghosts of People Who Lived Where Nobody Lived, Where Nobody Wanted to Live, Or Where People Who…

Apr 2 •

Landmarks: Jesse James and Jerry Ford

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Finding Easy On/Off Landmarks from the Freeway PLUS Meet Canadian SuperNonnie Lynn Ledgerwood!

Mar 30 •

American Death Trip (1) Hurons and Fathers

ANNETTE TELLS TALES Death Has History! Riffing on a Historian's Stories of Death and Deadness in Early America

Mar 26 •

Sometimes Saturday Photo: Battlefield

NOTE FROM NON-BORING HOUSE Plus Bits and Bobs of News about Paint Your Wagon and the Gnomes' Map

Mar 23 •

Meet The Historian! Nicole Etcheson and Bleeding Kansas

Annette Chats with Dr. Nicole Etcheson about Bleeding Kansas, and predicting the future with history (or not)

Mar 19 •

Nonnies: Paint Your Wagon (Again!) Today 😀

Doesn't matter if you missed Part 1! I'll bring your wagon up to our speed (3 mph with oxen) and take you on a time-travel journey to the American West…

Mar 16 •

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Non-Boring History

Substack Featured & Bestselling Newsletter! Join renegade historian and Brit in the US Dr. Annette Laing on her witty history mystery tour

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