Memory Lane

It's been awhile. My blog resolution fell by the wayside once the new term started. But there's no reason not to pick it up again,...

Wayne Gooderham posted his 2010 Reading Resolutions in today's Guardian . Among them are to stop re-reading old favorites and explore ...

Ukraine's security service (the SBU) has accused certain Holodomor perpetrators by name . These include Stalin and other high officials...

As an armchair Egyptologist, I'm super excited that archaeologists may have found the mausoleum where Antony and Cleopatra spent their ...

Every year, a little Luxembourg town remembers some holiday cheer  amid the darkness of WWII.  In 1944 an American soldier named Dick Brooki...

Does French identity still rest on the ideals of the French Revolution?  Agnes Poirier comments in The Guardian on the controversy arising ...

The Auschwitz sign has been recovered , cut into 3 pieces - each containing one of the 3 infamous words, 'Arbeit Macht Frei'.  Polis...