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In October 1871, a frenzied mob was responsible for the largest lynching in U.S. history.

The Numbers Game The first thing to bear in mind is that any number given is only an estimate. No one will ever be able to determine the exact death tol...

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Jun. 3—GU assistant professor of music Shuying Li will receive a 2021 Discovery Grant from the Opera Grants for Women Composers program funded by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Li and six other female composers will receive a total of $100,000, Opera America announced. The grant will support the development of Li's opera "When the Purple Mountains Burn." With libretto by Julian Crouch, ...

In March 2020, about a month after the South Korean film Parasite won four Oscars, including Best Picture—the first non-English language film to ever earn the Academy’s highest honor—US states began issuing lockdown orders for COVID-19. Shortly after, we began to hear reports of Asians and Asian Americans across the US being beaten, spit on, stabbed, and attacked in a multitude of other ways. Fast forward a year later, and not long after the Korean American film Minari was nominated for...

Save this story for later. Gum Shan. Gold Mountain. That was what the people in Guangdong Province called the faraway land where the native population had red hair and blue eyes, and it was rumored that gold nuggets could be plucked from the ground. According to an account in the San Francisco Chronicle, a merchant visiting from Canton, the provincial capital—likely soon after the discovery of gold at Sutter Creek, in 1848—wrote to a friend back home about the riches that he had found in t...

MSI Gaming Australia MSI Summit Series offers peak performance and looks Credit: MSI Australia MSI is targeting even greater success in 2021 with its new Summit series 2-in-1 laptops. The MSI Summit E13 Flip Evo is already a Best of the CES 2021 winner while the MSI Summit E16 Flip convertible claimed a CES Innovation Award. Unveiled at a special event, MSIology: Determined to Succeed in 2021, the new devices target the business user whether they are in the office or working remote...

Subject: The Review: The Nightmare of History "Is this a plea for historians to be granted some of the moral authority of the traumatized, of the survivor?" Thats Michael Roth, a historian and president of Wesleyan University, commenting on "Can Historians Be Traumatized by History?," an article recently published in The New Republic. Based on that headline, I was initially sympathetic to Roths skepticism. But the article, by James Robins, moved me. It begins with the story of Iris Chang, the...

Seventy-six years ago today the Soviet Red Army’s 100th Division liberated the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. There were somewhere between 7000 and 9000 prisoners left in the camp when the Soviet soldiers liberated it. The camp’s crematoria had been destroyed as well as most of the gas chambers. The SS had evacuated most of the surviving inmates and slave laborers by forced march to railhead miles away from the camp, in order to take them to other Concentration Camps deeper in Germany; Bu...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote,  “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” Back in 2010 I had a creditable and very specific death threat from a Neo-Nazi in East Tennessee. The man had a formidable internet presence, many publications online, including articles on how best to assassinate people. So I did my research, figured out who he was and reported him to the FBI. A week later his internet presence disappeared. I don’t know what ha...