During the infamous Kishinev pogrom of 1903, there were Jews who defended themselves and fought back against the attackers. But collective memory largely excluded their stories, in part because of ...

His mother's family had come to America from Russia a few years earlier, possibly to escape the great Kishinev pogroms against Jewish populations of the very early twentieth century. Tom Scoli's ...

Be it the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, the Spanish Inquisition of 1478, the Kishinev pogrom of 1903, the Iraqi (Baghdadi) Farhud in 1941, the Shoah, the Pittsburgh Tree of Life ...

The news that the current occupant of the White House has dismantled the Voice of America (VOA) by eliminating its budget ...

Sometime during 1497, the Portuguese armada, led by Vasco de Gama, while searching for a sea route from Europe to India, ...

The flagship publication of Davidson College, the Davidson Journal is published twice a year and includes campus news, feature stories, alumni news and class notes, online features and athletics news.

Annie Jump Cannon was an astronomer, suffragist, and photographer. Nearly deaf for much of her life, Cannon is credited with the invention of the Harvard spectral classification system, which assigns ...

Memory studies; relationship between history and memoir; minority identity; language in Diaspora; theories of post colonialism and nationalism; critical legal studies; law and ethics; literary ...