For Kershaw, Adolf Hitler’s life teaches powerful lessons.
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Daily Quiz for February 4, 2009
This 19th century illustrator created memorable Christmas images for Harper’s Weekly during the American Civil War.
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Daily Quiz for February 3, 2009
Sigmund Freud’s only visit to the United States was to accept an honorary degree at this Massachusetts institution in 1909.
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Interview: Carlo D’Este / Winston Churchill
“The young, evolving Churchill was sure he would die early and had to accomplish […]
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Daily Quiz for February 2, 2009
His name is identified with the phrase, “We never sleep.&rdquo
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Resources: February/March 2009
Robert E. Lee and Slavery, P. 30 Sources for Elizabeth Brown Pryor’s “Robert E. […]
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My War – Navy Dentist Jon E. Schiff
When incoming rocket fire broke up a basketball game at Navy dentist Jon E. Schiff’s hooch and clinic during Tet, he found himself using his medical training to save a Marine by performing an emergency tracheotomy with a scalpel and an ink pen tube
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Lincoln Defines the War Powers: February/March 2009
James M. McPherson may be the most distinguished of the current generation of Civil War historians, and he is surely one of the most prolific. His latest offering, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, traces Lincoln’s struggle to master the responsibility that would inevitably dominate his presidency.
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Daily Quiz for February 1, 2009
Reform-minded Independent Republicans, who backed the Democrat Grover Cleveland for president in 1884, were called this.
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Interview: Efraim Zuroff / American-born Israeli historian
As director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Jerusalem office, Efraim Zuroff coordinates the center’s worldwide effort to locate Nazi war criminals and bring them to justice.