not a virtue’…..It is a necessary condition of his work, but not his essential function.It is precisely for matters of this kind that the historian is entitled to rely on what have been called the‘auxiliary
When Adolf Hitler took control of Germany, one of his most pressing policies was undoing the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler wanted to restore Germany to its previous position as a world power, and reoccupy the territories and areas that had been reestablished after World War I....
“Symbolized,” I say, “by the umbrella that Neville Chamberlain carried back from Munich, after Chamberlain claimed to have brought ‘peace for our time’ by letting Hitler swallow up half of Czechoslovakia, giving Hitler the impetus to launch World War II. The umbrella became the symbol of ...
imprisoned or deprived of their freedom unless they are convicted according to the law of the land; merchants should be allowed to move about freely; there should be the same weights
we didn’t even have time to take blood pressure. We would give them a little hot whist toddy; that’s about all we have time to do. They would have terrific nosebleeds with it Sometimes, the blood would just shoot across the room. You had to get out of the way or someone’s nos...
(rather than an express choice, although, in fact, it almost amounted to the same thing) over the name of the person who was to serve as PM - in other words, as they had already made perfectly clear with regard to Chamberlain, they had the right to stipulate whom they would not ...
This avoids me going off on tangents (as I ashamedly used to) by asking pupils to produce irrelevant pieces of work (or genres) like newspaper reports on the Wall Street Crash, transcripts of conversations between Hitler and Chamberlain or government reports on the Manchurian Crisis. (It shoul...
Today was pretty much a win. I did not have any urgent work to do, and because it rained all damn day I did not feel obligated to work on our new deck. I almost worked on it tonight, but F that I wanted to watch the Red Sox, give Mom and Dad a call, and hang out for a ...
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