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If you have been following the news in the past months, you may have read that Democrats in the United States reported that the White House under Donald Trump failed to report gifts received by the former president from foreign nations. Moreover, other gifts went missing. Similar stories have also made the news in Brazil. […]
Read MoreMigration of the Serbs, by Serbian painter Paja Jovanović Security concerns often necessitate the establishment of specialized institutions in border regions that diverge from the norm in civilian territories. Scholars discuss how those residing in these frontier zones frequently endure unique challenges, a consequence of the state’s dual pursuit of safeguarding the periphery and subjugating […]
Read MoreWhite-bearded and dignified, Leo Baeck disembarked an airplane in New York’s La Guardia airport in January 1948. The seventy-four year-old rabbi came to preach in the United States as part of the American Jewish Cavalcade, a religious revival program of the Reform movement. As the former official leader of German Jewry under Nazism and a […]
Read MoreCaring for aging parents is a reality that many people face, or will face, as their parents age and need more support and care. My book, Caring for Mom and Dad, analyzes public policies that either required or encouraged support of aging parents in financial need throughout the twentieth century. I discovered responsible relative laws […]
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In 1353, a fuller from Bruges, Walter Collessad appeared twice in the borough court of Great Yarmouth. On 25 March, he was sued for an unspecified debt by a weaver from Bruges, Peter van Skelle and then a few months later, the same Walter was himself a plaintiff against one John Lythkyrke, a weaver from […]
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Students and professors being fed with Commonwealth Fund donation in Innsbruck, June 1921. Hoover Institution Archives In late 1920 Vienna, an old café basement, recently used as a storeroom for coal, was transformed; long tables, covered in white linen and decorated with flowers, were set up, and 170 people dined there daily. This was the scene […]
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While Muslim traders from the Arabic world and Jewish traders in the Mediterranean have enjoyed a long-established reputation for business acumen, Buddhist traders maintain a rather obscure position in histories of commerce. This may be because ancient Indian Buddhist scriptures hold that trading constituted misconduct on the part of monks, and trading for profit was […]
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On October 8, 1565, a carrack commanded by the young captain Juan de Salcedo and piloted by the Augustinian friar Andrés de Urdaneta entered the port of Acapulco in New Spain. It was the first time that a Spanish ship successfully completed the long eastbound journey between the Asian and American continents. The discovery of […]
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