To Find the Principles

"In fiction, the principles are given, to find
the facts: in history, the facts are given,
to find the principles; and the writer
who does not explain the phenomena
as well as state them performs
only one half of his office."

Thomas Babington Macaulay,
"History," Edinburgh Review, 1828

Showing posts with label November Anniversaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label November Anniversaries. Show all posts
Friday, December 2, 2016

Civic Forum: The Velvet Revolution of November 1989 and Beyond

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Because I'm teaching my course on modern East Central Europe again this fall, it seems an appropriate time to remember the so-called ...
Monday, November 28, 2016

My Little Book-Historical Connection to Alice's Restaurant

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This book is my copy of the English edition of Ernst von Salomon 's bestselling Fragebogen (The Questionnaire [1951]). Von Salom...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

18 November 1830: Death of Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati

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On 18 November 1830, Adam Weishaupt (b. 1748), founder of the Illuminati , died, age 82. Rarely does the modest achievement of a man stand i...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Veterans Day in Amherst

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Veterans Day is one of those quiet but pleasant holidays in Amherst. Attendance at our modest commemoration is small: far lower than on Mem...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

November 11, 1920: Interment of the British Unknown Soldier

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The mass slaughter of the Great War prompted contemporaries to find new ways to remember and mourn . The fact that many of the millions of f...
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