Author: Mark R. Stoneman
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Teaching undergraduate students forces me to deliver narratives and explanations to people who do not share my professional assumptions about how the world works and the way history should be told. It challenges me to think about how I can retell old stories with a different vocabulary. In the process…
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Quotations by Mills Kelly and John McClymer.
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My wife is reading a crime story I got for Christmas and read over the holidays, Christian von Ditfurth, Mann ohne Makel. It’s sleuth, Josef Maria Stachelmann, is a historian of the Third Reich. Wonderful read, if you know German. Anyway, my wife asked me about the Hossbach Protocol that…
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YouTube video aimed at American soldiers: “Your Job in Germany,” from very early in the occupation.
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Quotation by Samuel R. Williamson Jr and Russel Van Wyk on the “urgent need for civilian understanding and control of the military forces of the state.”
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The following piece, for my ESOL students, originally appeared on Language for You (now closed) on this date. Students who have spent many years learning English with vocabulary and grammar exercises in their home countries sometimes have a hard time speaking when they arrive in the United States. This is…
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YouTube video: Donald Duck, the working man, pays βtaxes to sink the Axis.β
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Description of a cartoon that takes on Americans’ outsourcing of war.