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Diplomatic Event in Rome — portraits of Emanuele III and Louvet — publisher SPQR, no. 6, Via Laurina
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#Rome #ItalianHistory #VictorEmmanuelIII #EmanueleIII #DiplomaticHistory #DiplomaticEvent #EuropeanHistory #VintagePostcard #AntiquePostcard
Diplomatic Event in Rome — portraits of Emanuele III and Louvet — publisher SPQR, no. 6, Via Laurina
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#Rome #ItalianHistory #VictorEmmanuelIII #EmanueleIII #DiplomaticHistory #DiplomaticEvent #EuropeanHistory #VintagePostcard #AntiquePostcard
https://www.europesays.com/africa/487735/ Why Thousands of South Asians Were Forced Out of East Africa #Africa #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #Philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #WWI #WWII
Tim Pat Coogan writes with force and fact. He never softens the blood or the loss.
#books #bookreview #TimPatCoogan #EuropeanHistory #histbookchat
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How the 1830 July Revolution Changed the Fate of France
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https://www.europesays.com/france/95276/
How the 1830 July Revolution Changed the Fate of France https://www.byteseu.com/2457879/ #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #France #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #WWI #wwii
The Hollywood Myths That Created a Fake Roman Empire
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https://www.europesays.com/italy/55813/
https://www.europesays.com/conflicts/31757/ Why the United States Couldn’t Stop Its Fatal Descent Into Vietnam #AmericanHistory #AmericanTroops #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #Philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #WWI #WWII
🇬🇧The Thirty Years’ War and the Peace of Westphalia
How often do we come across terms like "Thirty Years' War" or "Peace of Westphalia" – in discussions, in the news, in history books – without really knowing what lies behind them? I am convinced that those who understand their own history also understand the present better. That is why I have delved into one of the most consequential chapters of European history – and discovered a peace treaty that still shapes the way we think about states and war today. The Thirty Years' War […]
Book Review: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
* Contains no spoilers
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This is a book to devour in enormous gulps. When you do come up for air, fill yourself with some tea and then settle back into your armchair, to be borne aloft once more.
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent is a bittersweet and melancholy tale of a woman named Agnes Magnusdottir. Set in Iceland in 1829 the book showcases Agnes’ life and all of its shimmering promise and how her life has been tragically hemmed in on all sides by poverty, circumstances and bad luck.
Inspired by a true story, this bewitching and magical tale really draws you in. The heroine Agnus Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of a well-liked local man Natan Ketilsson.
As a ‘dead woman walking’, Agnes is placed with a local family until her death sentence is carried out by way of an axe fall. She is allocated a local priest as her council to (in the eyes of the law) redeem her and prepare her for the afterlife.
She confides in a young and gentle man of the cloth named Toti about her secrets and he pieces together the puzzle of how she came to be in a condemned position.
The presence of Agnes in the village in turns disturbs villagers and in other cases comforts them as she awaits her fate.
The writing in this book is just sublime.
Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2014 and Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014, this is probably the best book I’ve read in ages.
Burial Rites reminds me of another great historical novel (based on a true story) about a woman living in poverty who is condemned for murder – Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, yet another classic.
Just like Alias Grace, Burial Rites is a gritty, dark and haunting read. You can practically taste rusty blood in your mouth as you read it. I am not one for crime novels at all, but novels set in Iceland and historical novels yes. Even if you aren’t one for gory novels, you will enjoy this one.
5*/5
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/433888/ The South West African Campaign of WWI That Shaped the Region #Africa #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #Philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #WWI #WWII
The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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https://www.europesays.com/europe/141227/
https://www.europesays.com/3254426/ Why the Soviets Stopped the Largest Nuclear Bomb in History From Being Twice as Big #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #nuclear #philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #wwi #WWII
https://www.europesays.com/3254426/ Why the Soviets Stopped the Largest Nuclear Bomb in History From Being Twice as Big #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #nuclear #philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #wwi #WWII
"Now we’ve all been screwed by the Cabinet". Britain’s debate over the European Monetary System in the early 1990s raised a fundamental question – and foreshadowed #Brexit: How can governments preserve political agency in an internationally interdependent economy?
The 6 Best Museums to Learn About Roman History
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https://www.europesays.com/italy/48032/
Why Was Paris a Turning Point for Van Gogh?
Published: Sep 15,…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #Paris #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #Contemporaryart #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryofPolitics #HistoryofReligion #LatinandSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #military-history #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #Philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelandCulture #WorldHistory #WWI #WWII
https://www.europesays.com/france/79321/
https://www.europesays.com/africa/426213/ Gilles Deleuze Really Admired Egyptian Art and Its Resilience #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #Egypt #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #Philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #WWI #WWII
https://www.europesays.com/africa/421125/ What Made Botswana Southern Africa’s Greatest Success Story #Africa #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #Philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #WWI #WWII
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1197320/ 7 Things You Should Know About Damien Hirst #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ContemporaryArt #Design #Entertainment #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #Philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #UK #UnitedKingdom #WorldHistory #WWI #WWII
How Rome Ruled Its Massive Provincial Empire
Published: Sep 9,…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #Rome #AmericanHistory #ancienthistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryofPolitics #HistoryofReligion #LatinandSouthAmericanHistory #medievalhistory #MilitaryHistory #modernart #ModernPhilosophy #Philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #Renaissancehistory #TravelandCulture #worldhistory #wwi #WWII
https://www.europesays.com/italy/46587/
https://www.europesays.com/africa/416884/ Who Really Won the Struggle for Power After Idi Amin? #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #Philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #Uganda #WorldHistory #WWI #WWII
A Rita Luís vai moderar uma conversa entre Pablo Sánchez León e José Neves acerca de conceitos, transição e revolução, tendo como mote o livro "European Perspectives on Transition". É já na sexta-feira, 11 de Setembro, na Tigre de Papel.
ENTRADA LIVRE
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/conceitos-transicao-revolucao/
Before the wall, 3.5 million East Germans walked to freedom. One-fifth of a country emptied itself. The bleeding had to stop. Communist leaders built their prison from concrete.
#books #bookreviews #HistoricalNonFiction #EuropeanHistory #WeekendRead
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/berlin-wall-frederick-taylor-review/
7 Events Leading Up to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 https://www.byteseu.com/2327157/ #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #Hungary #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #WWI #wwii
https://www.europesays.com/iran/270773/ How People Actually Lived in Ancient Israel According to Archaeology #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #Israel #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #Philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #WWI #wwii
"About 25 percent of children died in their first year and another 15 percent by their tenth. The median English child thus grew up in a home with one sibling and two parents in their thirties or forties, being in this respect just like the median English child today."
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/did-medieval-people-love-their-children/
h/t @clive
#EuropeanHistory accounts to follow:
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@IHChistory - Institute of Contemporary History, Lisbon
@eseh - European Society for Environmental History
@OxMedStud - Interdisciplinary medieval studies at Oxford Univ
@stonepages (guide) & @gratefulwolf (editor) - Guide to ancient megalithic monuments in Europe
@RichardNevell - Medieval archaeologist, fan of castles
@domwass - Medieval historian, especially northern Europe
@S_Chaussee - Marine archaeologist, Roman & Early Medieval history
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The United States claims lineage from Athenian democracy, but rarely goes into detail about what that even is.
Features of Athenian democracy:
* A class of slaves that made the lifestyle of the land-holding class possible
* A class of non-voting residents to produce other goods and services
* A class of male land-holding citizens who can vote
* An empire that claimed democracy, but ruthlessly put down other cities attempting to free themselves from their chains
To early US Americans this was aspirational only because they saw themselves in the powerful land-holding class of Athens that could easily justify imperial excesses in the name of the governed, because some nepobaby voted for it.
Representative democracy in conjunction with capitalism does not steer far from those roots.
#UShistory #worldHistory #history #democracy #europeanHistory #politics
IOS researcher Volha Bartash spoke at Lithuania’s national European Roma Holocaust commemoration in #Paneriai, the largest mass killing site in Lithuania, one of the largest in Eastern Europe. Bartash is Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator project EMPOWER, based at IOS.
The project aims to rediscover forgotten Romani genocide memoryscapes in East and East-Central Europe.
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The Basques: Europe’s Ancient Survivors Who Refused to Disappear
Basque Shepherd Dogs (Artzain Txakurra)Dear Cherubs, if Europe were a family reunion, the Basques would be that mysterious relative who turns up speaking a language nobody else understands—and somehow has the oldest stories in the room. While empires came and went like fashion trends, the Basques simply carried on, quietly proving that survival is sometimes history’s greatest flex.
AN ANCIENT PEOPLE
The Basques are widely regarded as one of Europe’s oldest continuous cultural communities. While modern genetics shows they are not a completely isolated or “pure” people—a myth long abandoned by historians—they do preserve remarkable continuity with populations living in the western Pyrenees since prehistoric times. According to recent archaeological and genetic research, the region has been inhabited for thousands of years, with cultural continuity stretching back to the Neolithic, even as populations mixed over time.
Their language, Euskara, is the real headline act. Unlike Spanish, French, English, or almost every other European language, it belongs to no known language family. Linguists classify it as a language isolate, meaning no proven relationship has been established with any living language. That’s not just unusual—it is spectacularly rare.
For decades, the oldest known written Basque dated from Roman times. Then archaeologists uncovered the Hand of Irulegi in Navarre, a bronze artifact from around the 1st century BC bearing a Proto-Basque inscription. According to researchers, it pushed written Basque back several centuries and confirmed that the language was already established before full Romanization. It was archaeology’s version of finding an old hard drive that still boots.
EMPIRES CAME, BASQUES STAYED
The Romans conquered much of the Iberian Peninsula but never completely erased Basque identity. Instead, local communities gradually adopted aspects of Roman life while retaining their language in many mountainous regions. Later came the Visigoths, Muslim expansion into Iberia, Frankish influence, and the rise of the medieval Kingdom of Navarre. Through every political shift, Euskara survived where many other ancient European languages disappeared.
By the Middle Ages, Basque sailors were among Europe’s finest navigators. Historical records show they hunted whales in the Bay of Biscay and reached the rich cod fisheries off Newfoundland before many better-known maritime powers. They were quietly building an international reputation long before branding consultants existed.
The modern era brought fresh challenges. Following the Carlist Wars in the nineteenth century, traditional Basque self-government was significantly reduced. During Francisco Franco’s dictatorship (1939–1975), public use of Euskara was heavily restricted in Spain, and many cultural expressions were suppressed. Ironically, those policies strengthened local determination to preserve the language.
After Spain’s transition to democracy, Euskara experienced a remarkable revival. Today it is an official language in the Basque Autonomous Community and enjoys varying degrees of recognition elsewhere. Schools, universities, media outlets, and technology companies actively promote its use, although UNESCO continues to classify some Basque dialects as vulnerable.
The Basques are not “Europe’s original bloodline” in any literal biological sense. Modern populations everywhere are products of thousands of years of migration and intermarriage. What makes the Basques extraordinary is something arguably more impressive: they have maintained a unique language and cultural identity while adapting to every major political transformation Europe has experienced.
History often celebrates conquerors. The Basques remind us that sometimes the greatest achievement is simply refusing to vanish.
Sources:
Thisclaimer — https://thisclaimer.com
Euskaltzaindia (Royal Academy of the Basque Language) — https://www.euskaltzaindia.eus
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Basque — https://www.britannica.com/topic/Basque
National Geographic — https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/hand-irulegi-oldest-written-basque-language
UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages — https://en.wal.unesco.org/
Aranzadi Science Society — https://www.aranzadi.eus
Where Was the Garden of Eden? 5 Possible Real-World Locations https://www.allforgardening.com/1885495/where-was-the-garden-of-eden-5-possible-real-world-locations/ #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #garden #gardener #gardening #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #WWI #wwii
I see what they did there.
Today I learned that in 1726, Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) was facing indefinite imprisonment in the notorious Bastille, so he asked French authorities to exile him to England as an alternative punishment.
His request was granted, but I feel like the English should have been gravely insulted.
Teaching Toward Truth: A Reflection on the 2026 TOLI Summer Institute
Every so often, professional development does what it is supposed to do. It doesn’t just add a new tool to the shelf; it reframes the shelf entirely. That is what happened during the week of June 16–20 at Berea College, where I participated in We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident: Teaching the Holocaust and Human Rights, a week-long seminar hosted by the Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights (TOLI) and facilitated by Lauren Hill and Wendy Zagray Warren at the Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education.
I drove to Berea each day expecting to come home with lesson plans. What I came home with instead was something harder to quantify and more difficult to ignore: a reorientation toward human rights as a throughline, not a unit.
Where We Started
The week opened with grounding work that I did not expect to sit with as long as it did. Wendy’s opening session on land acknowledgment and the question of what we mean by “home” set a tone that echoed through everything that followed. We were not simply being asked to teach about history; we were being asked to examine where we stand within it. That distinction matters more than it sounds.
Tuesday afternoon introduced the inquiry design framework through the lens of democracy and the Holocaust, and the evening closed with the Timeline activity, which built the historical scaffolding we would need for the rest of the week. As someone who has taught U.S. History and Government for over two decades, I came in with a working knowledge of the chronology. What the timeline activity gave me was not new information so much as a renewed sense of how to sequence that information for students who are encountering it for the first time.
Image of the USHMM Timeline Activity webpage.The Sessions That Shifted Something
Wednesday brought two sessions that deserve their own conversation. Drs. Jill Abney and Karen Petrone led the group through the history of antisemitism, the rise of fascism, and how Hitler systematically dismantled democratic institutions. These are not easy conversations to navigate in a seminar room, and they are not easy conversations to bring into a high school classroom. What the session modeled was that the difficulty is not a reason to avoid the material; it is precisely the reason to approach it carefully and with preparation.
Wednesday afternoon also introduced Wendy’s We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident framework, which she returned to across multiple sessions throughout the week. The work of placing the Declaration of Independence in dialogue with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights gave me a practical and rigorous anchor for the kind of document-based inquiry I want to build into my freshman Government classes. In the past I have used the UN UDHR materials, I like the language and framing from Amnesty and may use this page in future classes.
Thursday and the Middletown School
Thursday was the day that broke the week open in a personal way. The morning included Wendy’s Turning Homeward session on eugenics and its legacy, followed by a presentation from Dr. Jessica Klanderud on teaching Black history in Kentucky through the Association for Teaching Black History in Kentucky. She spoke at length about how her life is a combination of intersectionality and how that shapes her work with in the classroom and at the Carter G. Woodson Center at Berea College. Both sessions reinforced the same difficult truth: the history of human rights violations is not something that happened elsewhere. It happened here, in Kentucky, in counties most of us drive through without thinking twice.
That afternoon, Sharyn Mitchell and Jackie Burnside led our group at the Middletown School in Berea, one of the Rosenwald Schools built across the South and border states in the early twentieth century to provide education for Black children during the era of legal segregation. The session drew on the remarkable archival collections housed at Berea College’s Special Collections and Archives, including scanned primary documents, oral history audio, and materials from the Lincoln Institute and the Farristown, Kentucky Oral History Project. Berea College students also produced a heritage brochure documenting Historic Black Berea: An Interracial Community, 1866–1900s, the kind of student-generated local history work that models exactly what I want to build with my own students.
What made this visit land differently than a standard historical tour was the conversation it opened about Madison County, my home county, and the segregation history that shaped schools, communities, and opportunities there within living memory.
Friday: Oral History and the Choices We Make
Friday morning brought one of the most practically useful sessions of the week. Arwen Donahue and Lauren led a session on oral history as both a pedagogical tool and a form of historical witness. Arwen is the author of This Is Home Now: Kentucky’s Holocaust Survivors Speak (University Press of Kentucky), a remarkable oral history collection that pairs survivor testimonies with photographs by Rebecca Gayle Howell. Hearing the original audio from that project in the room with the people who helped bring it into existence was one of those moments that reminds you why primary sources matter in ways that secondary accounts cannot replicate.
The afternoon session, Oath and Opposition, worked through the framework of choices and what Wendy called “choiceless choices,” drawing on the Pyramid of Hate and Pyramid of Power to examine how ordinary people navigate extraordinary pressures. This activity, which is no longer available on the USHMM website, gave participants a framework for examining complicity, resistance, and bystander behavior that translates directly into classroom discussion. It is exactly the kind of activity that asks students to locate themselves in a historical situation rather than observe it from a safe distance.
Friday also included Lauren’s Judaism 101 session, which grounded the week’s historical content in the living culture and theology of the people most directly affected by the Holocaust. That sequencing, history first and then the people behind the history, felt intentional and right.
Saturday and the Closing
The week was scheduled to close at Temple Adath Israel in Lexington, where the group would attend a traditional Reform Shabbat morning service, stay for a Q&A with the rabbi, and share their action plans in a final closing session. Family obligations kept me from attending those final activities, and I genuinely wish I had been able to be there; the arc of the week made it clear that Saturday’s closing was designed to bring everything together in a meaningful way.
What I was able to do was complete my action plan, which felt like the right way to honor the work of the week even from a distance. The closing session asked the question the whole week had been building toward: So what? What will you do with what you’ve learned? I may have missed the room where that question was asked aloud, but I didn’t miss the question itself.
What I Am Taking Back
I came in expecting to build lesson plans. I am leaving with something more structural: a commitment to human rights as a genuine throughline across the units I teach, not a single week in October bracketed by other content.
Practically, this means several things. I plan to use the USHMM Timeline activity and the Some Were Neighbors posters as anchor materials for an interactive community discussion night in December, open to parents and community members. I want to develop a full Oral Histories unit for my Debate and Rhetoric class, drawing directly on what Arwen modeled with This Is Home Now, and connect that work to the Lexington Public Library and UK Libraries Archives for possible long-term storage and partnership. I also plan to integrate the oral history interview format into the Defense of Learning portfolio cycle for my freshman Government students, giving them a structured way to talk with a mentor or significant adult about their own growth and the habits that will carry them forward.
The larger shift, though, is one I am less comfortable admitting in a professional document: I walked into this week thinking I could build something significant largely on my own, the way I tend to build most things. I walked out understanding that the work of teaching toward truth is not a solo project. It is a school-wide effort, a community effort, and in some cases a generational one.
TOLI gave me the framework. The rest is the work of the year.
Resources
If any of what I’ve described here is useful to your own practice, these are the places worth starting.
TOLI — The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights The Kentucky regional program page includes information about the seminar, its partners, and how to apply for future cohorts. https://www.toli.us/regional-program/kentucky/
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) The USHMM offers extensive free classroom resources, including the Timeline of Events and the Some Were Neighbors poster and discussion series. https://www.ushmm.org
Berea College Archives — Middletown School: Black in Appalachia (Scanned Materials) Primary documents related to the Middletown School and the broader history of Black education in Appalachian Kentucky. https://berea.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_5227f31c-05f8-4d5f-b784-4f66c39160ae/
Berea College Archives — Middletown School History (Video/Audio) https://berea.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_97d9d6cb-0bea-4159-8e02-6ad42260b0c6/
Berea College Archives — Lincoln Institute Oral History https://berea.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_e8b92dba-12ea-4938-be8a-740244246029/
Berea College Archives — Farristown, Kentucky Oral History Project https://berea.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_2f792601-8bdb-41fb-9ef6-c625c72dbbc7/
This Is Home Now: Kentucky’s Holocaust Survivors Speak Arwen Donahue’s oral history collection, published by the University Press of Kentucky, is available through the link below and through most library systems. https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813182384/this-is-home-now/
The TOLI Kentucky seminar was conducted in partnership with the University of Kentucky Jewish Heritage Fund Holocaust Education Initiative, the Association for Teaching Black History in Kentucky, the Carter G. Woodson Center at Berea College, and Temple Adath Israel in Lexington.
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You don't need weapons if you have Soviet umbrellas made in Bulgaria and distributed by Romanian importers from warehouses in Russia.
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UKRAINE FOUNDED “RUS”. Zelinskyi’s Offer To Cease Hostilities, 4 June 2026.
UKRAINE FOUNDED RUSSIA
Ukraine Founded “Rus”. Zelinskyi’s Offer To Cease Hostilities
So many lies have been said about European history, and in particular about Ukraine, that it is worth recording for posterity the official position of Ukraine in June 2026. President Z’s letter, 1800 words of it, is reproduced below.
But first a reminder:
Ukraine is fundamentally a multiethnic state, from way back… A property Ukraine shares with France or Rome; such a mixed cultural characteristic forces, if a state is formed, quite a bit of tolerance if the state is to perdure. Arguably Athens failed because, although it claimed to be an Open Society (Aspasia), it was actually less tolerant and open than it needed to be to survive (and less so than Rome, a genuinely open society). The first multiethnic empires were founded in the Fertile Crescent (Akkadia, Assyria, Babylonia), and no doubt inspired Rome which was founded at the intersection of the mysterious Etruscan and Magna Grecia…In full knowledge of the old histories.
Kyivan Rus’ was a mixed Slavo-Varangian polity founded by Varangian/Rus elite ruling an East Slavic population. Its successor state is Ukraine, presently led by someone of Jewish descent.
Ukraine was founded by the Rus of Novgorod more than 1100 years ago. Novgorod was a vast republic of Slavs in the north, but it was quite messy, so the citizens called ruling aristocrats from Rus, Eastern Sweden to come rule them. That desire to be ruled by a warring aristocracy may sound strange, but it is basically what had happened in Gallia (“Gaul”) when the Franks took over as the legitimate ruling aristocracy.
The Franks were not invited, initially, and had a partly conflictual relationship with Roman central state power for fifty years before taking part in Roman civil wars for a century before finally being put in charge of the Wacht am Rhein in 400 CE by the Roman government in Milan. By 507 CE, Roman Consul Clovis (king of the Franks) controlled all of Gallia, having crushed out the Goths.
Southern Ukraine and Crimea still carry Greek names and had been Greek for around 15 centuries when Prince Vladimir of Kyiv liberated Crimea from the Khazar Khaganate, a multireligious state whose elite was Jewish.
So Ukraine right from the start was a mix of Slavs, Vikings, Greeks, Jews and Tatars. This heady mix then headed east over a gigantic land and colonized what became Russia. The fact that flat Viking ships could circulate all over the land, from huge rivers to gigantic lakes, and trade profitably with the Romans to the south and Turks to the south east, made the colonization possible and profitable.
By the Eleventh Century, Ukraine was so powerful that Princess Anna of Kyiv married the most powerful monarch in Europe, the king of the Western Franks and Roman emperor in Paris….
The preceding sentence infuriates AI, but I know some important history better than AIs do: the King of France, Henri I was “emperor in his own kingdom” (rex imperator in regno suo), as his official title had it, equal to the “Roman” emperor elected by the rest of the Francs (the title of Holy German Empire” appeared only in the 16th century). All this gave the king of France the same rank as the Emperor, so the union of Ukraine and France was a very important one (the Anne de Kyiv brigade was trained and equipped in France and had great battlefield successes)..Why did the Western Franci separate from the rest of Francia? Because of the Viking raids which went nearly all over (present day) France. For example, all the way to Toulouse. The Empire of “Franks and Romans” had been unwilling to do enough against them, so Western Francia decided to solve the problem by herself. And it was solved: the Vikings were made offers that they couldn’t refuse and forced to settle. Novgorod-Kyiv-Rus, at the same time, was ruled by very similar Vikings (but they were the bosses, whereas in France they agreed to work with the bosses, with their own subsidiaries)..
When Henri died, Anna became ruling queen of France. Anna, who spoke half a dozen languages, had found the Franks uncouth, uneducated and rude: they were hard core military, something Russian Kyiv did not have enough of when the Mongols invaded. Anna proceeded to correct the Frankish lack of education. Her descendants would rule France for centuries. A few years after her rule the Francs, “FRANCI” (on the Bayreuth embroidery) reconquered Britain in the name of Rome (“under the papal banner” ).
One of Anna’s descendants, Philippe Auguste, in the Thirteenth Century, having defeated a coalition of much of Europe against himself at Bouvines (1214), proclaimed himself “king of France”, not just king of the Franks..
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The geographic immensity of the civilization founded by Ukraine, at a time when communications took weeks at best, plus its fundamentally all too democratic nature, made it ineffective as an imperium (where military command is centralized). So the state founded by Kyiv became a patchwork of principalities. Then disaster struck: the Mongols invaded. Dispersed command and control in the various principalities of Rus enabled the extremely fast moving invaders to defeat the Principalities one after the other. Kyiv was destroyed down to the last person, its governor whom the Mongols left alive to honor his courage.
Then came the ascent of Moscow, initially a fort, the Kremlin, founded by a son of Alexander Nevsky. Nevsky (not his original name) was a strange character who initially helped Novgorod against the Teutonic Knights, before being thrown out by Novgorod for trying to seize power. The Mongols named him Prince of Kyiv (which they had just annihilated). Moscow made itself the preferred and exclusive tax collector of Rus for the Golden Horde. Once fabulously wealthy, the Princes of Moscow kicked the Horde out and proclaimed themselves Czars (“Caesars”), claiming Moscow to be the “Third Rome” (successor to Constantinople which had fallen to the Turks).
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After a second invasion and destruction at the hands of the Mongols in the 15th century, Kyiv and Ukraine recovered. But, to fend off a Lithuanian-Poland coalition an accord was signed with the Kremlin in the mid-17th century, which the Kremlin despot later decided to interpret as an annexation treaty. The 1654 accord was not a simple “annexation treaty.” The Pereyaslav Agreement bound the Cossack Hetmanate to Muscovy as a protectorate/autonomous polity.
Catherine the Great, a German princess, accomplice-assassin of her husband in a coup and quite a few others, conquered south Ukraine and Crimea (1783).
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The Kremlin’s conquests were pursued with gusto in the 19th century, including grabbing in “Unequal Treaties” much of China around 1860… Differently from some of the grotesque claims in the South China Sea, the claims of China on those parts of Siberia have some validity. I have argued that the Empire Of Democracy could threaten the Kremlin with support for the Chinese claims.
The genesis of Kyivan Rus was essentially diverse open and democratic. The genesis of Kremlin’s power, four centuries later or so, was essentially obscure, conspirationist, secretive, backstabbing and plutocratic. This is a case of complete opposition. However the Kremlin’s approach was more adapted to installing the world’s largest land empire…. Now dwarfed by the Empire Of Democracy… Which is not its friend….
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Of the preceding, Ukraine’s president says nothing. After a nice picture of Saint Petersburg under Ukrainian strikes, while Putin held his BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) meeting…. .
Patrice Ayme
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Now for Prez Z’s excellent latter, after the nice picture of Saint Petersburg, Putin’s native city, in flames:
War is the ultimate authority in matter of civilization.
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Open Letter to the President of the Russian Federation from the President of Ukraine
4 June 2026 – 21:20
Open Letter
To the President of the Russian Federation
From the President of Ukraine
When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past.
Now, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers. As you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capabilities.
For 26 years, your time in power has completely changed the agenda of relations between Ukraine and Russia. From discussions about trade and other civilian matters, our nations have moved to talking almost exclusively about strikes and losses.
You have spent nearly half of your 26 years in power in Russia waging war against Ukraine.
Whatever you may say about NATO, geopolitics, or the Russian language, this war is your personal choice — a war without a real cause. That is how history will remember it.
Those years could have been very different.
We often hear that you are comfortable with this war. Of course, not in those cases when it comes to the security of your residence in Valdai or your parade in Moscow. Your own life is valuable to you.
But now we can all see that Russians are finally becoming less comfortable with this reality — with the fact that the war is bringing more and more negative consequences to Russia.
They do not like our drones and missiles.
They do not like gasoline shortages and constantly rising prices.
They do not like constant restrictions.
They do not like your intention to launch a second wave of mobilization in order to expand the war into another direction in Ukraine or to use it against other countries neighboring Russia.
They do not like the fact that there is no end in sight to your war.
Yes, you can still force Russians to exist this way. But your resources are shrinking significantly.
You will not have enough money or political capital to keep buying the loyalty of Russians the way you have for the past 26 years.
And we will do everything we can to ensure that the world helps bring that moment closer.
As you yourself like to say, “we need to run the numbers.”
Yesterday, I received a report on the losses of your army on the front in Ukraine during May. Once again, the number exceeded 30,000 Russian soldiers killed and seriously wounded. We have been maintaining that level month after month, and we have video confirmation of every one of your losses — these are not empty claims.
We know that 63 percent of your battlefield losses are killed, while only 37 percent are wounded. In the 21st century, no army can afford such a ratio. And the share of those killed will continue to grow.
It is not as if we in Ukraine are concerned about the fate of Russian soldiers after everything your war has brought to our country.
But I do care about Ukrainians.
We are losing our people, and every loss is painful to us. Even when the ratio of Ukrainian losses to Russian losses is one to five or one to six, it still matters greatly.
It also matters that you regularly postpone, every few months, your own deadlines for capturing our regions — especially the Donetsk region. And you will not capture it this year either.
But we in Ukraine do not want a permanent war. We know very well that life without war is infinitely better. And we want to achieve that.
I am convinced that the majority of Russians would respond positively to this as well — and you know it.
Many did not believe that Ukraine would be able to hold out for so long. You did not believe it. And those who advised you did not believe it either. That was a mistake.
You did not expect full-scale resistance from Ukraine, and you did not foresee that things would go this far. Yet here we all are — in the fifth year of this full-scale war.
Do not be afraid to take the path out of this war. That is the main thing that is required of you now.
Ukraine has preserved its independence. And it will preserve it. Despite all predictions to the contrary.
We have united many around the world to stand with Ukraine and against you. We found the weapons and the financing we needed.
We receive support. You receive sanctions. And this will continue until there is justice for Ukraine — the justice we seek and the justice that can be achieved.
We will not allow those who are trying to convince you that sanctions against Russia will be significantly eased, and that support for Ukraine will be significantly reduced, without any meaningful change in your position toward Ukraine, to succeed. The example of Orban shows how those who choose to help Russia in its war against us end in disgrace.
Ukraine has endured harsh winters while you tried to destroy our energy system. We held firm — and even in darkness, the resilience of Ukrainians remained intact.
We brought the war onto your territory, and you would not have been able to cope with it without North Korea’s help. You are the first ruler of Russia to turn to Pyongyang for assistance.
And today you are fully dependent on China — also for the first time in Russia’s history.
You believed Ukrainians would not have the strength to defend themselves. Yet today, our people are helping our partners in the Middle East and the Gulf build their own defenses.
You hoped for internal unrest in Ukraine. Instead, it was your own military formations that staged a mutiny against you. June 23 will mark another anniversary of that event, and silence will not erase this fact from history.
And now it is you whom your own officials, businessmen, and propagandists look at with obvious fatigue. The world can see it.
The world has not grown tired of Ukraine, as you long hoped it would. But there is growing fatigue with Russia — even among those in the wider world who help you bypass sanctions and keep your economy afloat.
You cannot fail to notice it. After 26 years in power, age is beginning to take its toll. And with time, the fatigue with you will only grow.
We have seen intelligence reports showing that you are now considering plans to continue the war into 2027 and 2028. We also know that you hope ballistic missiles will achieve for you what everything else has failed to achieve. You want to draw Belarus even deeper into this war, and we are now forced to prepare for that as well. We see that you are trying to orchestrate something around Transnistria. Your propagandists threaten, in one way or another, every country neighboring Russia. Do you really want to go through all of this?
The choice is yours now.
Enough of war.
Ukraine proposes to end this war.
This must be done honestly, with dignity, and with guarantees that the war will not be reignited.
We see that the United States is fully focused on the issue of Iran, and it would be wrong to simply wait until the war in Europe returns to the center of its attention.
Ukraine proposes ending this war through direct engagement between us — and you.
I am proposing a meeting.
Everyone heard your representatives, smiling, say that I could supposedly come to Moscow. But after these 26 years, there is nothing for a Ukrainian leader to do in your capital — just as there is nothing for a Russian leader to do in Kyiv.
There are countries that have traditionally hosted leaders to resolve issues of war and peace. Switzerland, Türkiye, the countries of the Arab world — many are able and willing to host such a meeting.
It is leaders who resolve the key issues. That has always been the case, and it always will be.
I propose to set a clear date for such a meeting.
We have heard that you were promised in Alaska the resolution of certain issues concerning Ukraine and Europe. But you can see for yourself that Ukrainian and European issues are not decided in Anchorage.
Other agreed participants could join the bilateral track to be established between us.
Since the war is taking place in Europe, and since Ukraine needs security guarantees, while you also seek security guarantees for yourself, it would be logical to involve those who can genuinely serve as guarantors.
We believe Europe should be part of this process — those who truly have the capacity to influence the situation.
We also believe that the United States must be part of the process. This is what could help shape a new security architecture for our part of the world.
We’ve already experienced many agreements with Russia, including the Minsk agreements, that ultimately failed. That is why we must first find direct answers between us to the questions that remain, and not hide from difficult issues behind formulas, technical working groups, or endless time lost in shuttle diplomacy.
Your war has permanently set Ukraine and Russia apart.
The front line today is the line from which diplomacy must begin.
Ukraine is ready for a full ceasefire for the duration of the negotiations. This is standard practice, and current developments around Iran only reinforce that point. An attempt to establish real silence is the best way to begin talking to one another. We believe it would not simply be an attempt, but a real ceasefire — if that is what you want.
You know that the United States has the capability to monitor a ceasefire along the line where hostilities stop.
Ukraine is ready for an all-for-all exchange of prisoners of war, and this could become a good prologue to ending the war.
Serious steps must be taken to return civilians and children who were taken away during the war.
We must determine what kind of future awaits the generations of Ukrainians and Russians who will come after us.
If you do not personally come to the conclusion that it is time to end this war, Ukraine will continue fighting for its existence. We will have those who support us.
But you, too, will have to fight much harder for your own existence — not Russia’s, but your own. And this is not a threat from me or from Ukraine. It is a fact of Russian history that you know well: when Russia grows tired, change comes.
We can work toward that fatigue.
You can stop your war.
Eternal memory to all those whose lives were taken by this war.
Glory to Ukraine!
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How real women dressed over the ages
A lot of fuss and attention is given to how wealthy women dressed in ancient times. Yet for every affluent woman there would be 10 other women of more humble origins, toiling and working in low paid and thankless jobs. Here are some really incredible videos that showcase how these women dressed over time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t__RhUyZMDM
Women in lower paid vocations have always wanted to look well turned out and polished and spent a great deal of their wages and energy on inventively finding ways to look more wealthy and maintaining a sense of dignity and self-worth through their clothing,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibj7GsfsCpI
Design as a clue to women’s daily challenges
How garments were designed gives us clues to their use and the daily challenges that women faced, which were often cleverly overcome by the design.
Hidden buttons in a pinafore protected WW2 nurses from scratching a patient lying down.
Hidden pockets in a dress in the 14th century allowed a woman’s purse to be concealed from view and prevented theft.
A hairpin worn in the hat of a suffagrette in 1910 could be used in self-defense if she was attacked by a mob while protesting.
VAD Nurse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZOaMbTRxWY
Working class suffragette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcBEywxurQA
18th century working woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmO7rBMdoU
Middle Ages – Scandinavian farmer and wealthy woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-W733ylNf8
Sumptuary laws
The law prohibited poorer people from using certain trims, fabrics and even colours. This dictated what clothes they could wear and how they could look.
“Laws made for the purpose of restraining luxury or extravagance, particularly against inordinate expenditures for apparel, food, furniture, etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ_ZD0dp9bw
When I look at these clothes, some of them seem fussy and time-consuming to put on. Although some are so feminine and beautiful that I really wish they would come back into fashion. What do you think?
Here is Dolly Parton’s Jolene in medieval style…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqQlB5fpuc
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Friday, May 22, 2026
"I'm not counting on the US;" In Estonia, faith in Trump's defense of Baltics fades -- Russian drones hits apartment buildings in Dnipro injuring 19, including 3 children -- Is Belarus about to enter the Russian war? -- The anniversary of Russia's long-forgotten genocide ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/friday-may-22-2026/
#OnThisDay, 8 May 1946, Estonian teens Aili Jürgenson and Ageeda Paavel blew up a Soviet war memorial in response to Soviet destruction of Estonian war memorials. They served eight years in the gulag as punishment.
In 1988 they were awarded the Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle to recognise their fight.
We only have a photo of Aili Jürgenson.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
🇪🇺 This Saturday (9th of May) is Europe Day. A day to celebrate our history and the way we have come united!
But do you know the story behind it? 🤔
Check our post to find out how it all started!
We are looking forward to this weekend!
Will you celebrate with us? 🎉
#europeday2026 #europeanunion #europeanhistory #schuman #standupforeurope
#OnThisDay, 7 May 1429, Jeanne d'Arc leads the French troops into the last day of fighting to lift the Siege of Orleans.
Read more at https://carvehername.org.uk/joan-of-arc-7-may-1429/
#WomenInHistory #EuropeanHistory #FrenchHistory #HundredYearsWar #JoanOfArc #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 29 April 1945, French women vote for the first time.
Newsreel: https://www.ina.fr/video/AFE86003075
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.
Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.
They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.
#History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons #EuropeanHistory
#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #SOE
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The Forgotten Stance: A Brief History of Spanish Non-Belligerence in World War Two
Owen James explores how Spain narrowly avoided World War II, debunking the myth of Franco’s "astute caution". The article highlights the failed Hendaye meeting, where excessive imperial demands clashed with Hitler’s goals, and the Blue Division’s anti-communist crusade, proving Spanish non-belligerence was a result of necessity, not design.
Let's boycott and stop capitalizing france, the uk, spain, portugal, holland/netherlands, belgium for murdering etc African peoples and brazil, japan, russia. for murdering etc non white peoples.
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#blackhistory #africanhistory #brazilianhistory #europeanhistory #blackmastodon
