We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you're missing.
Kavita Mudan Finn
A lot of Disney films haven't aged well. How can you help your kids understand a film like Sleeping Beauty, without just throwing it in the trash?
George R.R. Martin has said that his world is based on a grab bag of histories. The problem is, the histories he's drawing from are woefully out of date.