“I believe that all Germany’s Jews are looking around the world, but can find nowhere to go.”...
Month: June 2019
A 16th-century folk art was her passport from Sicily to Upstate New York. By Kathleen GarrettActress The...
My great-great grandmother missed the gentle, green valleys of Germany, but our Jewish family needed a new...
Where does economic power come from? Does it exist independently of the law? It seems obvious, even...
Objects, flora, and fauna from these faraway lands were shipped back to Europe where many people perceived...
Darius took personal command of his army for this encounter and led them to a resounding defeat....
It was here, against all odds, that Alexander defeated the forces of the Persian satraps of Asia...
Interesting History of Wedding Boots From over-the-knee lace loveliness to satin booties, wedding shoes and boots have...
Populists deployed an extreme concept of popular sovereignty over the course of the 20th century. Abstract In...
The populist businessman known as “the barefoot Wall Street lawyer” took over his party’s convention in Philadelphia....
Exploring current struggles of memory and history within and beyond the Japanese American community. For many Americans,...
In the first year of the Civil War, Union General Benjamin Butler used the term “contraband of...
Fort Sill, a military base in Oklahoma, will soon house 1,400 Central American children, the Trump administration...
Done right, aid fosters greater stability and boosts the economy. That reduces incentives to move away. President...
Outrage over the revolt that spurred the U.S. to deliver on a promise of the Revolution. The...
Presuming that immigration was a boon to national security, U.S. borders remained mostly open for the first...
A friend of FDR but not of big business, Culbert Olson believed humans had to save themselves....
Informed by their religious faith, the siblings merged “spiritual” with physical health. The popular singer and movie...
Throughout the empire’s history, Khmer’s court was repeatedly concerned with putting down rebellions. By Rodrigo Quijada PlubinsHistorian...
The creativity of the Pallavas did not diminish throughout their reign. By Anantha Krishnan Introduction The Pallavas...
Banias was first settled by the Canaanites c.198 BCE and later renamed Caesarea Philippi by the Romans...
Numerous excavations and a fairly large number of contemporary written documents give us a good picture of...
How Malcolm McLean’s shipping containers conquered the global economy by land and sea. On April 26, 1956,...
By Jennifer Ott / 11.05.2014 Introduction From canoes to container ships, a variety of vessels have carried...
Examining the connectedness and transnational interactions in the French spice project through the lens of Poivre’s informal...
Of all the things described in William of Rubruck’s account of his travels through 13th-century Asia, perhaps...
The conquest of Persia was not preordained and those living within its vast empire could never foresee...
The Persian Army became a multi-cultural force consisting of a fusion of soldiers from Persia or the...
Long before his campaign launched, ‘Old Hickory’s’ supporters were scrubbing his image. Sixty-five years ago, historian John...
By shielding British loyalists from persecution, the founder elevated principles over prejudice. The struggles of America’s cultural...