Twentieth Century
“From Across the Sea”
In November , 1933, the Chicago Tribune began running an occasional column titled “From Across the Sea” featuring reported think pieces by correspondents of the Tribune’s Foreign News Service. The column ran on the editorial page along with letters to the editor and other columns such as the whimsical “A Line O’Type or Two.”* Sigrid…
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Elizabeth Dilling: “The Female Führer”
On of my favorite accounts to follow on the site formerly known as Twitter,* On This Day She –which just made its last post– previously made an important point at the head of its feed: “A reminder: we do not ‘celebrate’ all the women we include in @onthisdayshe . Equal history means including those with…
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From the Archives: When Paris Went Dark
Another post from the past, in this case 2014, related to the stuff I’m working on today. New stuff soon, I promise. When Nazi troops marched into Paris in June, 1940, the city surrendered without firing a shot.* In When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 , historian Ronald C.…
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