Twentieth Century
From the Archives: A Woman’s Right to Vote and Germany’s 1932 Presidential Elections
When national elections occur here in the United States I always run a few relevant posts from the archives, because I don’t think it is possible to overemphasize how important the right to vote it. This ran for the first time in 1921 I’m still working my way through the articles Sigrid Schultz published…
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All-Night Party
As some of you may have noticed, I’ve been spending a a fair amount of time in recent months in New York City in the 1910s and 1920s, especially the corners of it dedicated to artists, bohemians, and modernists, self-declared and otherwise. Consequently, when All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930…
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From the Archives: When Paris Went Dark
Another post from the past, this time from 2014. When Nazi troops marched into Paris in June, 1940, the city surrendered without firing a shot.* In When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 , historian Ronald C. Rosbottom explores face-to-face interactions between occupiers and occupied, the effect of the Occupation…
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