A Year in Review
In which I read up on 1066
At the end of May, My Own True Love and I are traveling to Normandy with a tour led by the National World War II Museum.* The focus of the trip is D-Day. I am sure it will be wonderful, because the museum knows its stuff. But I must admit the part of the trip…
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Reading Your Way Through 1918
Dear Marginalia: Just stopping by with a quick recommendation of a history blog that I’m very much enjoying: Mary Grace McGeehan’s My Year in 1918: A Journey to the World of 100 Years Ago. I’ll let her explain for herself what she’s doing: “For the next year, I’ll be following the news and reading books…
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1947: A Year in Review
Looking back, 1947 was a year marked by fresh starts and tidying up loose ends from World War II. India received its independence from Britain after almost two hundred years of imperial domination–the beginning of the end of European imperialism. Unfortunately, Partition, the division of British India into the two sovereign states of India and…
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