This week, The Usonian travels to Cleveland to uncover the story of a Neo-Byzantine monument to a forgotten American president.
You can find the post here. Thanks for reading!
Category: Travel
Read “The monasteries of Cyprus” in The Usonian
This week in The Usonian, we take a trip to Kykkos and explore the ancient origins of monasteries in Cyprus and the greater Mediterranean. Read the newsletter post here.
Thanks for reading!
Read “Predictions from the edge of the world” in The Usonian
As a holiday treat, I’m re-releasing an old article about climate science in Antarctica.
Follow this link to read “Predictions from the edge of the world,” a profile of NOAA scientist Mitch Bushuk I wrote in college.
Happy holidays!
Read “The Tombs of the Kings” in The Cyprus Files
In the final issue of The Cyprus Files of the year, I wrote about the Tombs of the Kings in Cyprus—the impressive subterranean burials for the descendants of Alexander’s empire.
Read the post here.
Thanks for reading The Cyprus Files in 2022!
Read “The haunted ground of Belintash” in The Usonian
It’s spooky season, so I wrote about my visit to an ancient Thracian cult site in Bulgaria for The Usonian.
Check out the newsletter post here.
Happy Halloween!
Read “Clean energy advocate Graham Turk on Amtrak across America” in The Usonian
This week in The Usonian, a conversation with clean energy advocate Graham Turk on taking Amtrak across America—and back again.
Check out the interview here. Thanks for reading!
Read “Adventures in language-learning” in The Cyprus Files
This week on the blog—a reflection on my adventures in language-learning. Check out the post here!
Thanks for reading.
Read “The ruins, the ruined, the right time” in The Cyprus Files
This week on the blog, a glimpse at the work of Cypriot artist Kyriaki Costa and her search for the commons. Read the essay here.
Read “Two weeks with Harry Truman” in The Usonian
After a month-long hiatus, The Usonian newsletter is back with a recap of my visit to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Missouri.
Many thanks to the Truman Library Institute for supporting my productive research visit regarding the history of the Marshall Plan in Greece.
Check out the post here. As always, thanks for reading.
Read “(Not) the end of all our exploring” in The Cyprus Files
This week in The Cyprus Files—if not the final post, a post of finality.
This piece is a reflection on an extraordinary year abroad, and my gratitude to all the people who helped me get there, and helped me once I arrived.
Read the blog post here.
Thanks to all who read about my travels in Cyprus this year!
Harrison Blackman 