Tuesday, May 31, 2016

30-31 May 1942: First Thousand-Bomber Raid on Germany (and an early infographic)

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Serendipity is a pleasing thing. Several days ago, one of my tweeps*, looking ahead to this year's anniversary of the first thousand-bom...
Monday, May 30, 2016

For Memorial Day: Patriotic Accessories from the Civil War Era

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An advertisement from The Press , 29 July 1863. Founded by John Weiss Forney in 1857, the paper was published in Philadelphia until 1920. In...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

29 May 1942: The New York Times reports on reprisals for the Heydrich Assassination

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Two days after the assassination of the acting Nazi "Reichsprotektor" of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, the New York T...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Town Meeting: purest participatory democracy--or "mental torture, in which the victim actively collaborates"?

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"Town Meeting was absolutely awful last night." "How bad was it? "It was SO bad that...." Town Meeting ...
Friday, May 27, 2016

May 27, 1942: Czechoslovak Paratroopers Assassinate Reinhard Heydrich in Prague

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On May 27, 1942, Czechoslovak paratroopers Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), assassin...
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

May 3: Polish Constitution Day

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Constitution Day (Święto Konstytucji 3 Maja or Święto Narodowe Trzeciego Maja) marks the promulgation of the Polish Constitution in 1791, t...
Monday, May 2, 2016

May 2: Polish Flag Day

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Early Polish nationalists and the interwar republic celebrated May 3 as a national holiday, recalling the promulgation of the Constitution o...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Liberty, Government, and the Press in One Sentence

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In the course of working on a revised version of an older essay on the history of periodicals, I had occasion to consider what sorts of docu...

Amherst Officials Reveal Design for New Roundabout

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As any Amherst resident or commuter knows, the intersection of East Pleasant and Triangle Streets is one of the worst in town. It is a vita...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Easter Listening

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Wishing all my friends who celebrate Easter a joyous holiday and weekend. When we think of holiday music, most of us probably think first ...