Berlin: The Wall and The City
Berlin as a city has a storied identity – as a canvas for art, entertainment, hedonism, evil, political rhetoric, a place that created world events and has reinvented itself after […]
Category Archives: History
Books Summer 2014: Homage à Paris
Our selection of books in this homage to Paris is as light as a soufflé or as dense as a cassoulet. You choose which books – they range from the 1920’s to […]
D Day at 70: June 6 2014
Most of us have lost our living links to D Day 70 years ago– our (grand) dads, uncles, cousins and family friends. Today I am time traveling to Normandy, still […]
Civil War Gettysburg 150th Anniversary
July 1-3 1863: The Largest Battle in American History in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: 6,000 dead, 50,000+ injured and wounded, lives changed forever. Today in History (July 1) The Battle of Gettysburg Begins […]
CURRENT & COMING: Events & Exhibitions
February 15-18: Great Backyard Bird Count: Don’t miss out on the fun. Everyone everywhere can participate providing you have 15 minutes and an internet connection. GBBC web site See the […]
Books Galore: Heroes & Heroines
The Civil War’s 150th anniversary, Dickens’s bicentennial, the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring. All these are reason enough for updated biographies, groundbreaking research and new works that interpret history and […]
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