Showing posts with label Sources. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sources. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

19 January 1749: Birthday of Isaiah Thomas: Patriot, Printer, Founder of American Antiquarian Society

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Mass Moments tells us: On this day...in 1749, the Patriot printer Isaiah Thomas was born. In 1770, Thomas established the Massachusetts Sp...
Sunday, January 2, 2011

2 January 1782: Emperor Joseph II of Austria Issues Edict of Tolerance (with some reflections on assimilation and ethnic identity)

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The "Edict of Tolerance" [1] toward the Jews, which Joseph II issued at the start of 1782, was one in a series of his comprehensi...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

1 January 1788: Jews in the Austrian Empire Required to Assume German Surnames

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On this date in 1788, Jews of the Austrian Empire were required (by a decree of the preceding August) to assume permanent given names and su...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

So, Is the US Invasion of Iraq Like the Nazi Occupation of Czechoslovakia? (did anyone actually say it was?). On the problem of historical analogies

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Even though or perhaps because I had by chance recently been posting a lot about the history of Czechoslovakia under the Nazis ( 1 , 2 , 3 ,...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

How to Deal With Infantile Leftists (a lesson from history)

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Lenin famously denounced ultra-radical pseudo-leftism as an " infantile disorder ." Although he had something very specific in m...
Saturday, May 2, 2009

Who's Trying to Strangle Obama? (Introducing Cultural Literacy Check)

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No, that's not a question about his political enemies, but instead, a question about the representation of the question. When I came acr...