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Nazi sympathy in 1930s American Universities
It was just a few decades ago that elite education institutions in this country were placing quotas against Jewish students, encouraging students to visit Nazi Germany on exchange programs, refusing to hire Jewish refugee scholars fleeing Hitler, and punishing both faculty and students who protested the school’s friendly relations with the Nazi regime.
Guest Post: Rebecca’s love affair with Irish lit
In this guest post, our book loving coworker, Rebecca Yeager, declares her love for the literature of the Emerald Isle. Be sure to check out Thomas Bartlett’s Ireland: A History, out this month. Rebecca learned a few things in IRELAND and asked, “did you know that in 1902, a group of British Iraelites began illegal excavations at Tara in search of the Ark of the Covenant, and where stopped in part by through the efforts of several Irishmen, including Y.B. Yeats?”
Irish Times review of Ireland
The Irish Times called Bartlett’s book on Ireland: “a quite splendid new overview of Irish history.”
How to Help the Congo Toward Democracy
Will democratic elections aid Congo in quest for a pathway to peace? Author Séverine Autesserre blames the failure of peace-building in Congo on the national-level “election fetish” of international aid culture and says security problems are mainly local and need to be solved by corralling spoilers, strengthening local capacity, and setting up working legal institutions [...]
Staughton Lynd – Conscientious Objector
The New Republic muses over Staughton Lynd’s contributions to American radical historiography and the impacts tumultuous events of 20th century American politics on intellectuals.
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