Saturday, September 26, 2009

Local Historic District Study Committee: Research Begins

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The Amherst Local Historic District Study Committee convened again on 8 September for a walking tour of the existing Dickinson National His...

Preparation for the 250th Anniversary Parade

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Bunting goes up on the 1889 Town Hall early Tuesday morning (22 September), in preparation for Sunday's 250th Anniversary Parade .
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Labor Day . . . and who was talking about the labor movement?

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In part because I have just been reading Andrei Markovits's hard-hitting but judicious Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America , I ...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

1 September 1939: Seventy Years Ago, World War II Broke Out

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One doesn't wish to be too harsh, but one can't help feeling a certain sense of parochialism here. The Seventieth anniversary of the...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Lockerbie Bomber Released: Remembering a Hampshire College Student Among the Victims

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The release of the Lockerbie bomber has occasioned a good deal of controversy. Many of the discussions have featured interviews with friend...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

13 August 1961: Creation of the Berlin Wall

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We have become so fixated on the "Fall of the Wall"—whose twentieth anniversary we mark in a few months— that most of us downplay ...

Local Historic District Study Committee Moves Forward

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The Amherst Local Historic District Study Committee is now beginning its work in earnest. Below is the backgrounder from the Springfield Re...
Monday, August 10, 2009

10 August 1792: The Storming of the Tuileries: "Second French Revolution"

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Medal by Duvivier, issued by the Commune of Paris: Obverse: Liberty, bearing pike with Phrygian cap, and armed with thunderbolts, tramples ...
Monday, August 3, 2009

27-28 July 1794/9-10 Thermidor Year 2: Overthrow of Robespierre and the Radical Revolutionaries

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From Historein On the night of 9 Thermidor of the Year II of the French Republic, a sordid alliance of convenience between conservatives and...

Other Events Associated With July 20: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous (of Moons and Cheese)

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On these pages, we mark 20 July above all as the anniversary of the failed assassination attempt against Hitler. However, it is also the an...