By Dr. S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate / 04.26.2017 Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Hamilton College [April 26, 2017] was the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by fascist air forces from Spain, Italy, and Germany. It was a joint deal, with fascists sticking together across national lines. They bombed civilians,[…]
An einsatzgruppen murder in Kursnik, Poland in 1939. / German State Archives By Dr. Edward B. Westermann / 02.16.2018 Professor of History Texas A&M University It was noon in early 1942 as Johann Grüner approached the ‘German House’ in the Polish town of Nowy Targ for lunch. As a mid-level Nazi bureaucrat in occupied Poland, he enjoyed the[…]
LeventeGyori/Shutterstock.com By Dr. David Mislin / 11.08.2017 Assistant Professor, Intellectual Heritage Program Temple University Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther, a German monk, initiated a split in Christianity that came to be known as the Protestant Reformation. After the Reformation, deep divisions between Protestants and Catholics contributed to wars, hostility and violence in Europe and America. For centuries, each side[…]
Martin Luther nailing his ’95 These’ to the door By Dr. Brian Cummings / 02.16.2018 Anniversary Professor of English and Related Literature University of York Images of Martin Luther abound in his anniversary year, and they tend to conform to a type. Deutsche Bahn, the German railway company, has gone for the bronze statue that[…]
Confucius deemed reflection the best way to wisdom / Creative Commons By Dr. Khatera Sahibzada / 02.09.2018 Adjunct Lecturer of Leadership Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences University of Southern California One of the most admirable and arguably underrated qualities of leadership is the capacity for reflection. Confucius called it the most noble way to learn[…]
Fragmentary Mug with a Youth Drinking from a Wine Cup, 510–500 B.C., attributed to near the Theseus Painter, vase-painter; and to the Heron Class, potter. Greek, made in Athens. Terracotta, 6 1/4 in. high. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 76.AE.127. Gift of Lynda and Max Palevsky An eye-catching vase fragment provides a glimpse at the[…]