Click Here to Read: Jews Are Being Murdered in Paris. Again. By Bari Weiss in The New York Times on March 30, 2018.
Marche blanche pour Mireille Knoll le 28 mars 2018 à Paris Date 28 March 2018. Photo: Olevy
Category: History
Recalling Pete Seeger’s Controversial Performance on the Smothers Brothers Show 50 Years Ago
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
The Nazi History Behind ‘Asperger’
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