Frankly Speaking

Ansary, Tamim. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes . New York: PublicAffairs, 2009. As Americans moved past the...

Stanley Kramer’s haunting film On the Beach takes place in the aftermath of a world-wide nuclear war. It is early 1964, and the superpowers...

In the previous two posts, I described the Berlin anti-Jewish riots of 1935. How to interpret such events from the past has been, and con...

The foregoing reports match up perfectly with dispatches issued during the spring and summer of 1935 by William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to ...

The next three posts will present some of my research on the 1935 anti-Jewish riots in Berlin. These events represent only one of the countl...

"Orthodoxy: More Than an Empire (900-1700)" is the title of this chapter. Crises and Crusaders (900-1200) At the millennium, C...

This is the first chapter in Part V, which is titled, "Orthodoxy: The Imperial Faith (451-1800)". Like myself, most Westerners kno...

Theology, Heresy, Universities (1100-1300) The twelfth and thirteenth centuries saw the advent of universities in Christianized Europe. Few ...

"The West: Universal Emperor or Universal Pope? (900-1200)" is the title of this chapter. Abbots, Warriors and Popes: Cluny's ...

The southeastern corner of the Texas panhandle is home to a great little town called Wellington. And Wellington is home to the historic Ritz...

"The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (witho...

The title here is "Latin Christendom: New Frontiers (500-1000)." MacCulloch begins by insisting that the period from the break up ...