https://history.acestus.com/posts/Recent content in Posts on Acestus // History, Ideas & CultureHugoen-usCopyright © 2026, Acestus.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:00:00 -0500https://history.acestus.com/posts/starting-this-blog/Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:00:00 -0500https://history.acestus.com/posts/starting-this-blog/Why I’m writing about history, ideas, and the stuff of daily life.https://history.acestus.com/posts/im-a-historian-by-training/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://history.acestus.com/posts/im-a-historian-by-training/Primary sources, the hierarchy of distortion, and why the practitioner with a microphone beats the journalist summarizing them.https://history.acestus.com/posts/why-modern-movies-with-iphones-leave-me-cold/Sun, 03 May 2026 03:50:57 +0000https://history.acestus.com/posts/why-modern-movies-with-iphones-leave-me-cold/A lot of modern movies treat the iPhone as a substitute for character and drama. Star Trek shows what it looks like when technology serves the story instead of replacing it.https://history.acestus.com/posts/great-writers-freeze-a-language/Sat, 02 May 2026 05:00:13 +0000https://history.acestus.com/posts/great-writers-freeze-a-language/How Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Dante didn’t just write literature — they froze language in time, and we’re still speaking it.