A Year in Review
1947: A Year in Review
Looking back, 1947 was a year marked by fresh starts and tidying up loose ends from World War II. India received its independence from Britain after almost two hundred years of imperial domination–the beginning of the end of European imperialism. Unfortunately, Partition, the division of British India into the two sovereign states of India and…
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1517: A Year in Review
On October 31, 1517, one man with a hammer changed the course of history. Thirty-three-year-old German monk Martin Luther nailed a list of 95 complaints about the practices of the Catholic church to a church door in Wittenberg–the sixteenth century equivalent of pinning them to a community bulletin board. (Or perhaps, as some scholars argue,…
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1917: A Year in Review
In 1917, the War to End All Wars continued to dominate the headlines. On April 6, the United States finally abandoned isolationism and entered the war, after being given a strong shove by Germany in the form of the Zimmerman Telegram. On the Eastern front, Russia suffered devastating defeats, which contributed directly to the Bolshevik…
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