Graves, guilt and genius: Inside Lithuania’s struggle with its checkered past

Click Here to Read:  Graves, guilt and genius: Inside Lithuania’s struggle with its checkered past: Once an epicenter of Jewish life, the Baltic state still refuses to come clean about its dark history, critics charge. But recent developments show it is a work in progress On the Times of Israel website.

Image: Peter Fitzgerald.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Reading Anne Frank helped me start learning about Jews – and understand my own Native American history

Click Here to Read:  Reading Anne Frank helped me start learning about Jews – and understand my own Native American history by Angelina Newsom on the Jewish Telegraph Agency website on July 12, 2019.

 Anne Frank in 1940, while at 6. Montessorischool, Niersstraat 41-43, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Photograph by unknown photographer. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

What big history says about how royal women exercise power

Click Here to Listen to:  What big history says about how royal women exercise power by Laura Spinney on the aeon website.

Detail from a mural in Chapelle Sainte-Radegonde de Chinon (Chapel of Saint Radegund in Chinon, France). The figure has been variously identified as Eleanor of Aquitaine, her son Henry, or some other member of her family.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.