About Whitney Grace
Whitney Grace is a pop culture historian, specializing in illusion of life mediums: animation, puppetry, comics and graphic novels, and video games. She is also a podcast host and jewelry, collectibles, and antiques appraiser. Grace is a writer known for fiction and non-fiction books. She loves writing, thrifting, and walking her dogs.
Education
Master's Information and Library Science
University of Kentucky, 2010
BA Spanish
University of Kentucky
Graduate Gemologist
Gemological Institute of America
Areas of Expertise
About Whitney Grace
Whitney Grace is a pop culture historian, specializing in illusion of life mediums: animation, puppetry, comics and graphic novels, and video games. She is also a podcast host and jewelry, collectibles, and antiques appraiser. Grace is a writer known for fiction and non-fiction books. She loves writing, thrifting, and walking her dogs.
Education
Master's Information and Library Science
University of Kentucky, 2010
BA Spanish
University of Kentucky
Graduate Gemologist
Gemological Institute of America
Areas of Expertise
How Paleolithic Hunters and Ice Age Wolves Formed an Evolutionary Alliance
Around 30,000 BC, paleolithic wolves formed a beneficial relationship with humans that would eventually lead to modern dogs.
Why Royal Assassination Plots Forced European Monarchs to Outlaw Astrology
In the past, astrology wasn’t an innocuous pastime. It had real consequences that caused chaos at a state level.
What Was the Violent Origin of Pegasus in Greek Mythology
When Perseus severed the Gorgon Medusa’s neck, the winged horse Pegasus was born from her blood.
How 19th-Century Painters Reinvented Viking Myths in Art
Victorian-era Romantic painters reshaped Norse history by filling it with mythic, imaginary grandeur, creating tropes that continue in the modern imagination.
Who Were the Primordial Gods Behind the Creation of Japanese Mythology?
Japanese gods were born from immaterial, primordial entities who eventually became the mother and father of the island’s mythology.
How Vatican Heresy Trials Banished Astrology From Modern Science
Astrology was pushed to the sidelines, not because of scientific evidence, but by backlash from the highest echelons of religious power, which felt threatened.
Who Were the Primordial Gods Behind the Creation of Japanese Mythology?
Japanese gods were born from immaterial, primordial entities who eventually became the mother and father of the island’s mythology.
How Life-Giving Rivers Became Powerful Gods in Antiquity
In ancient societies, rivers went through a deification process because of their importance in society as a life-giving resource.
How Johannes Kepler Accidentally Destroyed the Science of Astrology
Kepler was a court astrologer, but also a man of science, whose search for the truth had unintended consequences.
How Prehistoric and Ancient Cultures Represented Mother Nature
The goddess known as “Mother Nature” is a universal force that was anthropomorphized in multiple global cultures.
Why Royal Assassination Plots Forced European Monarchs to Outlaw Astrology
In the past, astrology wasn’t an innocuous pastime. It had real consequences that caused chaos at a state level.
Did William Shakespeare Really Write the Greatest Plays in British Literary History?
Generating a great number of conspiracies is the idea that William Shakespeare did not, in fact, write his own plays!