by Karen Nyenhuis | Sep 16, 2026 | Great Northern War
Drawing of the Battle of Jasmund 1715 by an unknown artist. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Attributed to the collection of the Marin Museum at Karlskrona, Sweden, but the Wikipedia link to the item is broken. Military Action Between Sweden and Denmark in 1715 My...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jul 30, 2026 | Religious Conflict in Eighteenth Century Europe
Image of the latest edition from the Penguin Random House website, penguinrandomhouse.com. I read an older edition of the book: Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (New York: Ballentine Books, 1978). Cover illustration: “The Fourth...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Apr 6, 2026 | Great Northern War
Swedish historian Ulf Sundberg’s excellent thesis published in 2018, “Swedish Defensive Fortress Warfare in the Great Northern War 1702-1710,” is available to read on academia.edu and several other places. It is over four hundred pages long, so...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Feb 23, 2026 | Religious Conflict in Eighteenth Century Europe
Sweden’s Involvement in the Jacobite Uprisings in Scotland The relationship between Sweden and Scotland goes back to the Kalmar War between Sweden and Denmark-Norway from 1611-1613. Scottish soldiers were sent to reinforce the Swedish armed forces, and British...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jan 14, 2026 | A Miniature Gilded Age Tenement
Miniature Immigrant Tenement in Gilded Age San Francisco The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Gold Rush brought a massive influx of people to San Francisco in the Gilded Age. My mother created this 1:12 scale building with three apartments that she...
