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The Guardian
March 3, 2018
Cultural dementia The phrase is the title of a new book by a historian of modern Europe, Professor David Andress, who argues that France, the US and Britain are all engaged in “particular forms of forgetting, mistaking and misremembering the past”. This is more deadly than straightforward nostalgia, whichÃÂ ...
Bournemouth Echo
March 1, 2018
A GROUP of students from a school in Christchurch took part in a Question Time-style debate on WW1. BBC Newsnight's Mark Urban chaired the debate, which was hosted by Hayesfield School in Bath. Pupils from Highcliffe School joined over 100 young people from across the South West at the debateÃÂ ...
Etownian
February 22, 2018
As the High Library continues to feature the WWI and America Exhibition, it sponsored the lecture “Defining the Nation: Gender, Race and Belonging in World War I.” Assistant professor of history Dr. Chelsea Schields gave the lecture in the High Library Wednesday, Feb. 14. Archivist Rachel GroveÃÂ ...
HNN Huntingtonnews.net
February 21, 2018
New York University curator and historian to speak at Marshall University on Scottsboro case ... He earned a master's degree in library and information science from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in modern European history from New York University, where he is also an affiliated facultyÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 18, 2018
But the culture they fostered — hermetically sealed worlds of hypochondria and self-indulgence — were by then an indelible part of modern Europe. ... As the historian David Clay Large has written, “the grand spas in their heyday amounted to their world's equivalent of today's golf and tennis resorts,ÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
February 15, 2018
Between May and August 1918, as World War I entered its final months, a 32-year-old historian named Charles Kingsley Webster, then on wartime leave ... For him, this was the first great diplomatic interaction between modern European powers and the single greatest precedent available to 20th centuryÃÂ ...
Realscreen
December 31, 1999
Originally commissioned by France 5, The Real War of Thrones (4 x 60, pictured) is a 4K docu-drama series that charts the rival dynasties that forged the history of modern Europe. Each episode focuses on a period of 30 to 40 years, which corresponds to a critical moment in European history and a clashÃÂ ...
The Brussels Times
September 11, 2017
At a debate last week historians argued that the museum has an ... The focus of the museum is on modern European history and the birth of theÃÂ ...
City Watch
September 8, 2017
Medieval Historians: What to Do When Nazis Are Obsessed with Your Field ... were medieval people of color in pre-modern European artwork.
Philly.com
September 8, 2017
... and Alexandria, Egypt,” notes military historian Rick Atkinson. .... of its historic contributions, over the centuries, to how modern Europe hasÃÂ ...
City Watch
September 8, 2017
Medieval Historians: What to Do When Nazis Are Obsessed with Your Field ... were medieval people of color in pre-modern European artwork.
Wicked Local Sudbury
September 7, 2017
... the Industrial Revolution culminate in the chaos of World War I, considered by most historians to be the greatest tragedy of modern EuropeanÃÂ ...
Markets Insider
September 7, 2017
"We have come together as two architectural historians and a restoration ... and graduate degrees in United States and modern European history. ... is a Pasadena-based "qualified architectural historian" specializing in theÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
September 6, 2017
... a statesman and historian, was shot dead by Cevat Sakir, her older ... blending modern European painting traditions and Oriental themes,ÃÂ ...
Pacific Standard
September 6, 2017
... were medieval people of color in pre-modern European artwork. ... Again, this explicit hate must be encountered and rejected by historians.
AroundtheO
August 28, 2017
... an Ohio State University historian and former UO faculty member. ... Old Georgian dictionaries even existed in modern European languages.
Sputnik International
August 23, 2017
Respected Russian historian Alexander Chubaryan outlines why, nearly 80 ... Russian historian specializing in modern European history and the ... "However, instead of becoming an object of discussion for professional historians (who really do ... The historian recalled that the Soviet Union was woefullyÃÂ ...
WNYC
August 22, 2017
Mark Bray, one of the organizers of Occupy Wall Street; a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe;ÃÂ ...
North Texas e-News
December 31, 1999
The historian earned her bachelor's degree at Columbia University ... He arrived at Austin College as a scholar of early modern EuropeanÃÂ ...
Concord Register
March 22, 2017
"There is freedom of speech," says Volker Berghahn, a historian of German and modern European history at Columbia University, "but within limits of laws and court decisions that were promulgated against the background of bitter historical experiences.
DAWN.com
March 21, 2017
In a more sanguine assessment than Tharoor's, the distinguished Barbadian historian, Hilary Beckles, made a resonating call year before last to then British Prime Minister David Cameron on behalf of the Caribbean Community, to make a "commitment to ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
March 20, 2017
Horowitz, a cultural-social historian of early modern Europe, served as co-editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review, a peer-reviewed journal of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, which he and co ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
March 20, 2017
Horowitz, a cultural-social historian of early modern Europe, served as co-editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review, a peer-reviewed journal of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, which he and co ...
Irish Times
March 16, 2017
As a historian, I wanted to honour a great poet who made "hope and history rhyme". The poem is embedded in a greater narrative: an adventure story and odyssey that recounts the travels ... While it would not be until April 1951 that the European Coal ...
Patheos (blog)
March 16, 2017
We are hearing a lot this year about the centennial of the First World War, and time and again, we hear what a "futile" and "meaningless" struggle that was.
Luther College News (blog)
March 15, 2017
I am an early modern historian. That means I spend a lot of time wading around in the 16th century, getting to know the people and events of that now-distant past.
UChicago News
March 15, 2017
An historian who has written frequently on the history of the University, Boyer completed his book, The University of Chicago: A History in 2015, to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the University's founding.
Albuquerque Journal
March 15, 2017
For Bernice Doore, the fate of the European Union weighs heavily in the Dutch election. Her husband, Andy Nicholls, is a British citizen.
Maryville Daily Times
March 15, 2017
Liulevicius is a historian of modern Europe and director of the University of Tennessee Knoxville's Center for the Study of War and Society.
Information Nigeria
March 11, 2017
Science of Us points to historian Roger Ekirch who says that patterns from people in early modern Europe and North America that show that humans slept in a "dead" and "morning" shift.
USAPP American Politics and Policy (blog)
March 10, 2017
The four forms of contract-enforcement appeared in many economies side-by-side, but in late medieval and early modern Europe, the guild and market equilibria became increasingly dominant. Thus, the areas that had the most effective apprenticeship ...
POLITICO Magazine
March 10, 2017
But do they? Many a European leader, not to mention historian, disagrees. Runaway nationalism led to, among many .... Modern Europe was built over 70 years and won't be easy to tear down in a presidential term. Trump's unpopularity in Europe could evenÃÂ ...
Scroll.in
February 26, 2017
and introduced us to historian EH Carr. ... Hari Sen, crisp of voice and expression, dove headlong into the debates of Modern India; and they all divided up Social Formations and Modern Europe among themselves, French Revolution and all. Curiously ...
Belleville News-Democrat
February 21, 2017
Lindenwood University-Belleville professor Jennifer Welsh recently had a book published called "The Cult of St. Anne in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. " St. Anne is ... She thinks her book will appeal to both historians and graduate students. "It's ...
The Maine Campus
February 20, 2017
Dr. Alex Grab is a professor of history at the University of Maine and focuses primarily in Early Modern and Modern European history. Dr. Nathan Godfried is also a history professor at the University of ... "I came up with reactionary populism because ...
Apollo Magazine
February 20, 2017
Its patron, Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, commonly known as Bess of Hardwick, has been celebrated as a formidable patron of early modern Europe. ... Historians have given many interpretations of Bess's true intentions in building the house and ...
The Guardian
February 19, 2017
"The universalising discourses of modern Europe and the United States." Edward Said argued in his book Culture ... The British historian Jonathan Israel, now professor of modern European history at Princeton university, is perhaps the most important ...
Dal News
February 17, 2017
A scholar of modern French and Jewish history, Dr. Corber holds a PhD in Modern European History from Indiana University, Bloomington, as well as an MA in Modern European History from the University of Toronto and a BA in European History and JewishÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
February 13, 2017
Muslim Spain has long been viewed by historians as a model nation for religious tolerance. Christians and Jews in the territory received ... Persecution of Jews had begun during this time in Latin Christendom or modern Europe. Forced conversion ...
Danville Advocate
February 13, 2017
15, these art historians will discuss the"Golden Age of Dutch Art" at the Art Center's monthly Lunch with the Arts program.
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
February 3, 2017
Willis quotes extensively from Judge Ware's extrajudicial writings, revealing a man with deep knowledge of classical literature and familiarity with the works of Greek and Roman historians and orators. One such passage of ... "Finally, it is also worth ...
The News-Press
February 3, 2017
Class is taught by Holocaust and Modern European Historian Jessica Evers, focuses on virulent, wide-spread European Jew hating from the 19th Century through the Holocaust.
Houston Chronicle
February 2, 2017
As a practicing historian of modern Europe, I find many of my facts in state and private archives: government documents, private diaries, correspondence, police reports, and the like.
New Statesman
January 30, 2017
In April 1521 he was summoned to the Diet of Worms, providing the moment Carlyle described as "the greatest scene in Modern European History; the point, indeed, from which the whole subsequent history of civilisation takes its rise". This was where ...
The Conversation UK
January 20, 2017
The attempts by peasants in the Holy Roman Empire to realise the Gospel message - a message which to them promised social as well as spiritual equality - led to one of the largest popular rebellions in early modern Europe, with rebel armies made up of ...
Telegraph.co.uk
January 19, 2017
Bendor Grosvenor, a broadcaster and art historian who specialises in Old Masters, said that the declarations of fakery were "definitely the tip" of an iceberg and predicted that there would be many more embarrassing revelations for all auction houses ...
The Atlantic
January 15, 2017
In early modern Europe, religious separatists transformed this idea, establishing towns where they could await the imminent coming of Christ, writes the Williams College art historian Michael J. Lewis in his book, City of Refuge. Great thinkers have ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
January 12, 2017
The imminent ascension to the U.S. presidency of Donald Trump, a man whose supporters and detractors both agree is exceptional in the context of American history, raises a question which historians and social scientists generally prefer to shy away ...
The Catholic Key
January 6, 2017
After receiving her master's degree in history from Marquette University in 1958, Sister McAuley went on to earn a doctorate in modern European history from Notre Dame in 1961. Her dissertation, "The Sisters of Mercy as Crimean War Nurses," increased ...
Myrtle Beach Sun News
December 16, 2016
Various strains of nationalism built the ideological architecture of modern European nation-states, the pathologies of 20th century totalitarian regimes and the justifications for post-war anti-colonial and independence movements.
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