Excuse me for thinking like a historian of modern Europe.
"Trump Fires Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary" = Night of the Long Knives (sacrificing a "radical" to appease public opinion)
"Trump Says U.S. Should Have Role in Picking Iran’s Leader" = point 5 of the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia
Question for the constitutional scholars:
What is the purpose of Congress? Why does it exist?
Now let’s see a snow-Attlee.
Ian Buruma does not hold back. Wow.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...
And what if you don’t want to take 900 history books with you to your retirement home?
The natural thing would be the donate them to the university library, but what if your library says, “No thanks. We only collect e-books now”? And what if you have no grad students who want them? Then what?
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Question for the academics here:
Let’s say you’ve been a professor or lecturer for 35 years. In that time you have amassed a huge collection of books on the history of Germany, Mexico, China, or whatever your geographic specialty was. What do you do with them when you retire?
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Leaving aside the man’s politics, why was the head of the FBI partying with the hockey team? Just on the face of it, it’s extremely odd.
I’m sure it never occurred to William Webster to intrude in the locker room celebration of the Miracle on Ice team in 1980 or any American Olympic team.
Wow, it’s been a big day for the echoes of German history.
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Zuerst waren es das Deutsche Historische Museum im Zeughaus, das Pergamonmuseum und das Märkische Museum. Und jetzt die Staatsbibliothek? Für elf Jahre?!
In dieser Zeit könnte man eine neue Staatsbibliothek bauen (aber offenbar keinen Flughafen).
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There was literally an international hit pop song about this very phenomenon back in 1983.
"Hast du etwas Zeit für mich? Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich von 99 Luftballons auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont..."
I wonder what she thinks of opera. Most Americans don’t speak Italian or German either.
In Bonn, a cloister was turned into a concentration camp (transit camp) for Jews en route to death camps. And for many years in the 20th century, it was used as a dormitory for female students at Uni Bonn et al. Now it's a seminary for priests.
Your Polish-American family's story of immigration is full of exaggerations & falsehoods? And now that you have expertise on the subject, you're wondering if you should tell your relatives?
Every American Jewish historian of mod. J. history has just entered the chat.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/m...
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The New York Times published photos of Empress Eugenie’s squashed crown. I can’t help but think that it’s a metaphor for the French Second Empire itself.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/w...
Surely I’m not the only one who thinks that Berlin Olympics ‘36 is best avoided.
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You have to wonder how much Canadians would miss them if they did secede.
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Heute habe ich mir in der Bibliothek *zwei* deutsche Fachbücher ohne Register ausgeliehen! 🤦♂️
Liebe deutsche Autoren, im Namen der Wissenschaft bitte ich Sie: Führen Sie in Ihren Büchern nicht nur Personenregister, sondern auch Sachregister.
It’s great to see Harold interviewed — and somewhat surprising since his specialty is German economic history. Na ja.
Vanessa Friedman, the fashion editor at the @nytimes.com, interviewed the renowned historian of Germany Harold James about Border Patrol’s Wehrmacht cosplay fashion sensibility.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/s...
It was prescient and memorable.
Did you see this article when it came out 8 years ago?:
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
I read this document with ease. Another museum-goer, a Millennial, struggled to read it, but got most of it. My Gen Z progeny can only make out a few words. 🙁
#cursive #handwriting #paleography
