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...Congress was slow to recognize the great crimes perpetrated nearly a century ago, one would hardly blame them: the Armenian genocide was scarcely acknowledged for 50 years. Another one of history??s great criminals, Adolf Hitler, used the mass killing’s anonymity to justify his own violence towards the Poles in 1939, saying: “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians...
...book written by a woman, about many, many women, “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History?? surprisingly speaks to both genders. Engaging from the introduction, 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s newest book is an attempt to answer some of the most baffling questions about the relationships between women and men, women and their communities, and women and history. She may not provide any easy resolutions, but she succeeds in making readers curious about the condition of womanhood and its development throughout history??a history that stretches much farther back...
...asked to be remembered on earth. And they haven’t been. Well-behaved women seldom make history,” she wrote. Twenty years later, she received an e-mail from a young woman who had found the phrase “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History?? attributed to Ulrich in a book of quotations by women and wanted permission to print it on a shirt. “I couldn’t even remember saying it,” Ulrich said at the Book Store event. “I had to look...
...those folks who goes out of his way to say that the Holocaust was history??s worst crime against humanity, but I had to cry foul. “Wait a second,” I replied. “The Japanese did some terrible things, but they didn’t systematically kill millions of Koreans. You can say things were better or worse, or whatever, but not that it was the same thing...
...delivered in a high-pitched, quavering voice that is distinctly his—is similarly unique, coming in excitable spasms and accompanied by a frenzied hand-wringing in its more passionate moments: when, for instance, he discovers that the new University librarian is a leader in intellectual history??his own area of concentration when he has time to pick up a textbook...