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Everybody. We are going to start todays topic is antisemitism during high tide, during world war i and world war ii. The last time we discussed anti semitism we focused on the years between the civil war and the end of the century. You will remember it was a period that historians called the e meragainst ofmergence of a fullfledged antiseem antisemitic society. One, was exclusion ofjews fr hotels and public congregation. Refers to be excleuted from the grand union hotel in saratoga springs, new ...

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That the Georgia Historical Society invited me to have this Senior Historian is my cohost. There is really no place i would rather be on the summer night than in this lovely southern town. Although i now live in california, grew up in georgia. It is wonderful being back. Seeing old friends, many old ends, making some new ones southerners are warm and embracing, and really the best word is dear. So dear. The south is a golden place. Yet, as we all know, there is another darker side. Behind locked...

The Mary Phagan trial was the Trial of the Century before there was a Trial of the Century. But the aftermath is what history remembers. Phagan, only 13, was murdered April 26, 1913 in the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta. The night watchman found her body the next morning in the factory’s basement.

Van Pearlberg, a longtime prosecutor, former Marietta councilman and beloved stage actor who knew no stranger, died Saturday night.

In the wake of Elon Musk's purchase of social media giant Twitter, which he has since rebranded as X, antisemitism has surged on the platform.

Anti-Jewish tropes and conspiracy theories that are surging on the former Twitter find their roots in centuries-old beliefs that are widespread in the US

Antisemitism on X recycles ancient tropes falsely blaming Jewish people for a wide range of social and political ills, and for their own victimization.

Elon Musk has both sparked and permitted antisemitism on X, the social media platform he now owns. Chesnot/Getty Images Pamela S. Nadell, American University Since buying Twitter, rebranded as X, billionaire Elon Musk, who calls himself a “free speech absolutist,” has welcomed hatemongers to the platform, including one who recently coined the trending hashtag #BanTheADL. […]

Greenblatt sought to shake him down for donations.