The End?—December 2012

The End?

December 2012 – Volume 1, Number 1

The Appendix sprang from a simple idea: a lot of what makes the past fascinating, human, and relevant ends up on history’s cutting room floor. It has been said, after all, that only around one-tenth of historians’ research makes it into their published work. A tenth of newspapers read, books carried, archives explored, receipts tallied, journals skimmed, letters digested. A tenth of people’s lives sifted to make history manageable and ready for publication. The Appendix provides a home for the other nine-tenths.

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Executive Editor: Christopher Heaney
Managing Editor: Felipe Fernandes Cruz
Creative Editor: Benjamin Breen
Publisher: Brian Jones
Local History Editor: Hannah Carney

1.
Letters to The Appendix
2.
Letter from the Editors
3.
Prophecy of Benjamin,
The Anti-Christ
4.
Amazonia 1952: FOUND By Felipe Fernandes Cruz
5.
Time and the Maya Apocalypse: Guatemala, 1982 and 2012 By Virginia Garrard-Burnett
6.
The Remains of Amelia Earhart By Ryan Harper
7.
Calypso’s Island: A Short History of the Apocalypse By Benjamin Breen
8.
Death by Chamomile? The Alimentary End of Henry Granville Naimbana By Rachel Herrmann
9.
Death of a Sailor: A Novel History of Murder in 1830s New York, War and Forbidden Love in the Age of Napoleon, and Captivity and Freedom in the Last Days of the Atlantic Slave Trade; in many, many Parts. By Christopher Heaney
10.
Whose Apocalypse? A New Mercantile Meaning of the “The End” in the New World circa 1600 By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
11.
Maximón, a Maya Saint in Sunglasses By Kathleen McCampbell
12.
Local History: The Vulture Mine and Vulture City–Wickenburg, Arizona By Lynn Downey
13.
Local History Excerpt: I Rode with Red Scout: When Yellowstone’s Early Tourists Stumbled into Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce’s Final War By Nate Schweber
14.
Edward Emerson Barnard and Sylvester Graham By Jenn Blair
15.
Interview with Adam Hochschild: The Imaginary Cemetery By Christopher Heaney
16.
The Ambulatory Archive: Santa Muerte Tattoos as Historical Sources By Robinson A. Herrera
17.
Why Did J.P. Morgan’s Prize Bulldog Die of Shame? By John Patrick Leary
18.
Box Office Bomb: “The Beginning or the End” (1947) By Bruce J. Hunt
19.
Sürgün By Melody Nixon
20.
Days of Future Present: Marvel Comics and “the Most Intricate Fictional Narrative in the History of the World” By Christopher Heaney
21.
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb By Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
22.
“On the Island of Thieves” By Andrew Cohen
23.
The Appendix, Appendixed. By Benjamin Breen