Martin Luther King: January 15, 1929 to April 4, 1968

Click Here to Read  50 Years Later, Remembering King, and the Battles That Outlived Him: In his last years, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was grappling with many issues: workers’ rights, a sprawling protest movement, persistent segregation and poverty. We inherited them all by Rachel L. Swarns on April 4, 2018.

Click Here to Read and View: The question that haunts Martin Luther King’s last day in Memphis By John Blake on the CNN website on April 3, 2018.

Click Here to Read and View:  Martin Luther King Jr. on the History Channel Website. Continue reading Martin Luther King: January 15, 1929 to April 4, 1968

Did Hans Asperger save children from the Nazis — or sell them out?

Click Here to Read: Did Hans Asperger save children from the Nazis — or sell them out? Reviewing Steve Silberman’s Neurotribes, Simon Baron-Cohen, our leading authority on autism, wonders what really went on in Asperger’s children’s clinic in ‘Aryanised’ 1940s Vienna by Simon Baron-Cohen on the Spectator website on on September 12, 2015.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Photograph #13129

Some early modern populations in Britain may have had dark skin

Click Here to Read:   Some early modern populations in Britain may have had dark skin By Philip Guelpa on The World Socialist Web Site on March 22, 2018.

The Cheddar Man: A Skeleton of Late Palaeolithic Date. C. G. Seligman and F. G. Parsons The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 44, (Jul. – Dec., 1914), pp. 241-263. by PC. G. Seligman and F. G. Parsons. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Historian Tuesday: Herodotus

Click Here to Read:  Herodotus on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  The History of Herodotus By Herodotus

Click Here to Read: Arms and the Man: What was Herodotus trying to tell us? By Daniel Mendelsohn in The New Yorker in April 28, 2008 Issue.

Click Here to Read: On the Road With History’s Father By Tom Bissell in The New York Times on June 10, 2007.

Click Here to Read:   The rest is history: With his reputation for romanticism and rambling and his love of gossip, Herodotus was dismissed by the serious thinkers of his day. Yet his work is both entertaining and deeply moral, argues Charlotte Higgins on the Guardian website on January 2, 2009. Continue reading Historian Tuesday: Herodotus

She Was the Only Woman in a Photo of 38 Scientists, and Now She’s Been Identified

Click Here to Read: She Was the Only Woman in a Photo of 38 Scientists, and Now She’s Been Identified By Jacey Fortin in The New York Times on March 19, 2018.

Sheila Minor Huff, center left and partly obscured, was just beginning her career when she was photographed at the International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia in 1971. Public Domain via NOAA