Click Here to Read: The Secret Photographer Who Captured Four Decades of Life in St Petersburg: Unlike most long-lost family photos, Ivashintsova’s 30,000 images show a unique aesthetic, one that she hid from her loved ones, inviting comparisons to Chicago street photographer Vivian Maier by Elena Goukassian on the HyperAllergic website on May 14, 2018.
Street scene in Tomsk, Russia. June 2008. Photo:Adam Jones. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Holocaust Museum’s Exhibit Makes Excuses for Ignoring Genocide: One shudders at the thought of museums one day conjuring up excuses for more recent presidents who likewise turned a blind eye to genocide or other atrocities around the world.
BY Rafael Medoff on the Jerusalem website on May 12, 2018.
Click Here to Read: New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II: As the Holocaust raged, the American president secretly asked his government to study the possible resettlement of remaining European refugees in Africa and South America. His goal: for Jews to be ‘spread thin all over the world.’ By Steve Usdin on the Tablet website on April 30, 2018.
Click Here to Read: Reexamining FDR’s Response to Kristallnacht Ken Burns and others have called it impressive, but the truth is less inspiring By Rafael Medoff on the Tablet website on November 4, 2014.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
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Click Here to Read: Ancient DNA Study Pokes Holes in Horse Domestication Theory: A long-held theory on how horse domestication and language spread across Asia has been disrupted by a look at our genetic past By Erin Blakemore on the National Geographic Website on May 9, 2018.
Horses born wild on Shackleford Banks adjust well to being domestic companions byBonnie Gruenberg. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Listen To: Random Acts of History: Stories about people who accidentally bump into unsettling facts of history in settings meant to teach them history. What they end up learning is very different from what they’re supposed to on the This American Life website on April 27, 2018.
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Click Here to Read: New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II: As the Holocaust raged, the American president secretly asked his government to study the possible resettlement of remaining European refugees in Africa and South America. His goal: for Jews to be ‘spread thin all over the world.’ By Steve Usdin on the Tablet website on April 30, 2018.
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau. (12/17/1942 – 09/15/1945) Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1942 and 1945. National Archives Archeological Site. Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
