Twentieth Century
Civilian Internment Camps in World War I (Not a Typo)
Until recently, I thought of internment camps only in terms of the shameful removal and imprisonment of Japanese Americans by the United States government, which saw concentrated populations of people of Japanese descent as a security risk, based on no evidence what so ever.* Several years ago, thanks to the excellent BBC mystery series…
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Nazi War Crimes Trials: Not Just Nuremberg
Two years ago, My Own True Love and I spent Christmas with family members in Nuremberg. It was a fascinating mixture of Christmas markets, the city’s glory days in the medieval period, gingerbread, and Nazis.* It was a perfect history nerd holiday, with lots of new perspectives on things I thought I knew something about.…
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In Which I Read the 1932 Sports Pages
Anyone who knows me In Real Life knows that I am not much of a sports fan. If there had been a “least likely to read the sports pages” category in my high school yearbook, I would have won it hands down. Left to my own devices, I might not have turned to the Chicago…
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