Tudor Roses,
Or Happy Birthday King Henry VIII
Today’s celeb gossip has nothing on Henry the VII and his six wives…
Today’s celeb gossip has nothing on Henry the VII and his six wives…
Lynne Viola’s final post about her research for her book.
Everyday this week we are posting part of a series from author Lynne Viola, The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements. Check out part one and part two and part three. Luck and serendipity combined to provide unique and rich sources for the book. I was continually amazed at the degree of […]
I read of the Regional Party Committee’s plans to feed the exiles’ families (including some 88,000 children) according to “starvation norms.”
Yesterday we presented part 1 in a 5 part series about The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements by Lynn Viola. Today Viola takes us inside the archives in Moscow.
Stalin’s reign over the Soviet Union has left many unanswered questions but in The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements Lynne Viola answers one: what happened to millions of peasants in the 1930’s.
Hargittai’s book tells the story of five brilliant men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Kármán, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller.
An excerpt from the first chapter of Philip Jenkins’s God’s Continent.
Philip Jenkins author of God’s Continent answers some questions for OUP.
Can Barbara Hillary teach us about life?
A biographical look at John Muir.
Susan Shirk, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for U.S. relations with China, is the author of China: Fragile Superpower. In her book Shirk opens up the black box of Chinese politics and finds that the real danger lies in the deep insecurity of its leaders. Below Shirk graciously answers some questions for OUP.
Sadly the movers are coming for my computer soon, but before they do, here is one last post for today. I was playing around on the electronic version of The International Encyclopedia of Dance and found this entry about the Tarantella dance. Keep reading to find out how dance and spiders are connected. Tarantella. Although […]
Lives across the pong from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Douglad P. Fry, author of Beyond War, writes an original piece for the OUPblog.
A closer look at Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse with help from the DNB.