The Man and the Mask of Lawrence of ArabiaAs an historian by training I shouldn’t like to think that accidental participation…
Why I care about Memorial Stadium — and why you should tooBy Mike StantonSometimes, in journalism, you find a story so interesting, so worthy of being told, that it becomes an obsession. And sometimes, that story finds you.
The past is a foreign country… they do things differently thereIt’s becoming history now, almost unknowable, slipping —like Gordon of Khartoum — into that curious spectacle of caricature and legend.
The French “Surrender Monkeys”As British historian Professor William Philpott put it: “France won the First World War. This simple fact is all but forgotten in the English-speaking world.” French generals coordinated overall allied strategy, rebuilt the shattered Serbian and Romanian armies, threw back…
A Peace to End All PeaceA Book ReportI committed to myself to write book reports this year when I finish reading something really interesting. This is the first of those reports.
Jewish Newspapers and Franz Ferdinand’s MurderOn a lark, I decided to see what Jewish newspapers thought of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the ensuing July Crisis. I chose two newspapers: one published in Germany and the other in St. Petersburg. Both were published in Hebrew.
LifesaverOne woman makes a difference.There once was a woman during World War II,Who gave 2500 Jewish kids life a new.She smuggled them in a toolbox and a burlap sack,