Bill Ruttenberg
@bill-ruttenberg.bsky.social
History teacher, book lover, reader
I finished up a couple more history books these last couple of days. Both of them were 5 star reads.
July 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I finished up a couple more history books these last couple of days. Both of them were 5 star reads.
Hey everybody! I just wanted to let everyone know that Peg @ the history shelf and myself will be doing a Saturday Reads Livestream at 2 pm cst. It should be a lot of fun. I invite everyone to stop by and join in the livestream. Hope to see you there!
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Saturday Reads Livestream!
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July 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Hey everybody! I just wanted to let everyone know that Peg @ the history shelf and myself will be doing a Saturday Reads Livestream at 2 pm cst. It should be a lot of fun. I invite everyone to stop by and join in the livestream. Hope to see you there!
www.youtube.com/live/TFxqzTH...
www.youtube.com/live/TFxqzTH...
A big thank you to the University of Chicago Press for sending this biography in the mail. Alexander the Great: Lives and Legacies by Stephen Harrison. I can’t wait to dig into it!
July 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A big thank you to the University of Chicago Press for sending this biography in the mail. Alexander the Great: Lives and Legacies by Stephen Harrison. I can’t wait to dig into it!
Finished this biography this morning by Jane Dunn called Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens. This is an excellent dual biography of two queens of Europe from the 1500s. The book is a great look at the relationship and rivalry of these two women. I highly recommend checking out this book.
July 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Finished this biography this morning by Jane Dunn called Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens. This is an excellent dual biography of two queens of Europe from the 1500s. The book is a great look at the relationship and rivalry of these two women. I highly recommend checking out this book.
For all of you baseball fans out there that love the history of the game, this was a good one about the 1908 season and the amazingly close finish to the NL pennant race. It discusses the changes in baseball that led to the modern era of the game. Good stuff. Crazy ‘08 by Cait Murphy.
July 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
For all of you baseball fans out there that love the history of the game, this was a good one about the 1908 season and the amazingly close finish to the NL pennant race. It discusses the changes in baseball that led to the modern era of the game. Good stuff. Crazy ‘08 by Cait Murphy.
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Always fun to open a new box! TEA WITH JAM AND DREAD, the 6th Tea by the Sea mystery from @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social coming July 29. The gang is off to Yorkshire for plenty of tea and scones!
July 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Always fun to open a new box! TEA WITH JAM AND DREAD, the 6th Tea by the Sea mystery from @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social coming July 29. The gang is off to Yorkshire for plenty of tea and scones!
I just finished my first two books for Historathon 2025 - 3rd Quarter where we read history nonfiction for the years 1500-1820. Both of these books were really good. I highly recommend both of them. Go check them out. They are by Stacy Schiff and Olaudah Equiano.
#historathon2025
#historathon2025
July 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I just finished my first two books for Historathon 2025 - 3rd Quarter where we read history nonfiction for the years 1500-1820. Both of these books were really good. I highly recommend both of them. Go check them out. They are by Stacy Schiff and Olaudah Equiano.
#historathon2025
#historathon2025
Historathon 2025 — 3rd Quarter Pile of Possibilities
Here is a pile of books that I am going to try to get through for Historathon 2025. We are going to be focusing our nonfiction history reading from the time period between 1500–1820. Go check out the video …
youtu.be/eH2qKY63-YA?...
Here is a pile of books that I am going to try to get through for Historathon 2025. We are going to be focusing our nonfiction history reading from the time period between 1500–1820. Go check out the video …
youtu.be/eH2qKY63-YA?...
3rd Quarter Historathon 2025 -- Pile of Possibilities
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June 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Historathon 2025 — 3rd Quarter Pile of Possibilities
Here is a pile of books that I am going to try to get through for Historathon 2025. We are going to be focusing our nonfiction history reading from the time period between 1500–1820. Go check out the video …
youtu.be/eH2qKY63-YA?...
Here is a pile of books that I am going to try to get through for Historathon 2025. We are going to be focusing our nonfiction history reading from the time period between 1500–1820. Go check out the video …
youtu.be/eH2qKY63-YA?...
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Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions by Maurizio Isabella is an examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the South.
Out now in paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Out now in paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
June 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions by Maurizio Isabella is an examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the South.
Out now in paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Out now in paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Check out this review of 🔫SHOT THROUGH THE BOOK🔫 by @vickidelany.bsky.social from Wonder Women Sixty!
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June 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Check out this review of 🔫SHOT THROUGH THE BOOK🔫 by @vickidelany.bsky.social from Wonder Women Sixty!
https://loom.ly/__gPNHk
https://loom.ly/__gPNHk
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“Rip Van Winkle,” Washington Irving’s tale of a colonial-era villager who meets some ghostly Dutchmen in the Catskills and sleeps through the American Revolution, was published 206 years ago today. (Shudder to think what Rip would have thought had he woken up a couple hundred years later...)
Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” - Library of America
Washington Irving (1783–1859) From Washington Irving: History, Tales and Sketches The Return of Rip Van Winkle, 1849, oil on canvas by American painter John Quidor (1801–1881). Quidor’s painting “accu...
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June 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“Rip Van Winkle,” Washington Irving’s tale of a colonial-era villager who meets some ghostly Dutchmen in the Catskills and sleeps through the American Revolution, was published 206 years ago today. (Shudder to think what Rip would have thought had he woken up a couple hundred years later...)
I couldn’t sleep last night so I got up and started reading these Gary Paulsen classics, Brian’s Winter and Brian’s Return. They are part of the Hatchet series. Wonderful adventure stories! If you’ve never tried them you are missing out.
May 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I couldn’t sleep last night so I got up and started reading these Gary Paulsen classics, Brian’s Winter and Brian’s Return. They are part of the Hatchet series. Wonderful adventure stories! If you’ve never tried them you are missing out.
I just finished Erik Larson’s book The Devil in the White City. I have been working on this for the last two weeks. Good book. Not my favorite Larson book but still very interesting. Set in the 1890s during the Chicago Fair with a killer on the loose. I recommend everyone to check it out.
May 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I just finished Erik Larson’s book The Devil in the White City. I have been working on this for the last two weeks. Good book. Not my favorite Larson book but still very interesting. Set in the 1890s during the Chicago Fair with a killer on the loose. I recommend everyone to check it out.
Yesterday I finished an excellent novel by Mitch Albom called The Little Liar. It is a story of a Jewish family during the Holocaust and their world after. I highly recommend the book.
May 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Yesterday I finished an excellent novel by Mitch Albom called The Little Liar. It is a story of a Jewish family during the Holocaust and their world after. I highly recommend the book.
I just finished up My last book for the first quarter of #historathon2025. Alexander at the End of the World by Rachel Kousser covers the end of Alexander the Great’s life when he was on campaign in Central Asia and India. I found this to be a good book that is accessible to all readers. Good book!
March 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I just finished up My last book for the first quarter of #historathon2025. Alexander at the End of the World by Rachel Kousser covers the end of Alexander the Great’s life when he was on campaign in Central Asia and India. I found this to be a good book that is accessible to all readers. Good book!
I am enjoying a beautiful afternoon on the porch and just finished John Steinbeck’s novella The Pearl. This is a sad story of what greed can do to people. Check it out.
March 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I am enjoying a beautiful afternoon on the porch and just finished John Steinbeck’s novella The Pearl. This is a sad story of what greed can do to people. Check it out.
I just finished Death by Beach Read by Eva Gates. This is #9 in the Lighthouse Library Mystery series. In this story Conner and Lucy buy a house together on the beach. Is it haunted or just full of bad family history? Go check out this fast paced mystery!
March 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I just finished Death by Beach Read by Eva Gates. This is #9 in the Lighthouse Library Mystery series. In this story Conner and Lucy buy a house together on the beach. Is it haunted or just full of bad family history? Go check out this fast paced mystery!
I just finished up this excellent piece of WWII historical fiction by Jack Cavannaugh called Dear Enemy. The narrative is done from the perspective of a strong female character, a nurse during the war. I highly recommend this book. It was very well done.
March 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I just finished up this excellent piece of WWII historical fiction by Jack Cavannaugh called Dear Enemy. The narrative is done from the perspective of a strong female character, a nurse during the war. I highly recommend this book. It was very well done.
I just finished reading Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard. This was an excellent book about the military career of Winston Churchill. It is easy to read and understand. I would recommend the book to anyone wanting to learn more about the early part of Churchill’s career.
March 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I just finished reading Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard. This was an excellent book about the military career of Winston Churchill. It is easy to read and understand. I would recommend the book to anyone wanting to learn more about the early part of Churchill’s career.
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"Largely forgotten patriots."
Today's forthcoming-book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @drzara.bsky.social & @harvardpress.bsky.social!
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Today's forthcoming-book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @drzara.bsky.social & @harvardpress.bsky.social!
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March 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"Largely forgotten patriots."
Today's forthcoming-book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @drzara.bsky.social & @harvardpress.bsky.social!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Today's forthcoming-book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @drzara.bsky.social & @harvardpress.bsky.social!
Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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Today through March 30, twenty-one Library of America series titles are 50% off on our Web Store! Browse the full selection in our Spring Warehouse Sale: www.loa.org/books/collec...
March 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Today through March 30, twenty-one Library of America series titles are 50% off on our Web Store! Browse the full selection in our Spring Warehouse Sale: www.loa.org/books/collec...
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This week’s #fridayreads is AUTHORITY, the forthcoming book of essays and criticism by Andrea Long Chu—accompanied by a 221B Baker Brown from Redbeard Brewing in Staunton, VA. Perfect start to a literary weekend.
March 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This week’s #fridayreads is AUTHORITY, the forthcoming book of essays and criticism by Andrea Long Chu—accompanied by a 221B Baker Brown from Redbeard Brewing in Staunton, VA. Perfect start to a literary weekend.
Historathon 2025 2nd Quarter Announcement Video
YouTube video by Bill Ruttenberg
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March 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Thoughts on Ritchie Robertson's massive - and superb! -"The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790" (@harpercollins.bsky.social, 2020).
#BookSky #Books #BookTube #Historathon 💙📚
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#BookSky #Books #BookTube #Historathon 💙📚
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Review of "The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790" by Ritchie Robertson
YouTube video by John David (NicholasOfAutrecourt)
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March 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Thoughts on Ritchie Robertson's massive - and superb! -"The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790" (@harpercollins.bsky.social, 2020).
#BookSky #Books #BookTube #Historathon 💙📚
youtu.be/cFCtGLouKxw
#BookSky #Books #BookTube #Historathon 💙📚
youtu.be/cFCtGLouKxw