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First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln. United States Capitol. Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1864.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Situation
Fern G. Horwitz self-portrait, 1971.
The Underappreciated Qualities of Art
New Year's 2012 in Times Square. Nichole A. Hall.
New Years in Uncertain Times
Michael Horwitz Dancing
A "Reel Good" Find
A photograph of a Polish Jew, seen in Fishberg's 1911 work The Jews: A Study of Race and Environment
Nobody Nose: One Anthropologist's Findings on a Notorious Antisemitic Trope
The Weintraub Family. Top row, L-R: Moe, Jacob, Rose, Goldie. Bottom row: Morris, Harry.
A "Picture-Perfect" Find
Combing through old court records, to discover that my great-great-great uncle submitted an affidavit in support of a pro-union strike at a shoemaking factory in 1917.
A "Striking" Find
President Biden being brief by Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the terrorist attack in Israel, October 7, 2023. The White House. Photographer: Cameron Smith
Response to the Devastating Attack on Israel Could Offer Hope
Alan at the site of Thoreau's cabin, by Walden Pond.
The “Sukkah” at Walden Pond?
Kant
The Brilliant Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
Martin Luther King, Jr. at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. National Park Service. Licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Was Martin Luther King “Color Blind?"
Isidor Straus, 1906. George Grantham Bain collection, Library of Congress. Bain News Service.
The Dramatic "Plot Twist" of Isidor Straus
Alaska Airlines Feature Image
How Alaska Airlines Brought Nearly 50,000 Jews to Israel
Thomas Jefferson and the Jews Feature Image
Thomas Jefferson and the Jews
Jews in Space: Real Life Feature Image
Jews in Space - Real Life
Jews in Space Feature Image
Jews in Space
Zionism is Not Racism: Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Defense of Israel
Free Speech for Nazis? Feature Image
Free Speech for Nazis? How This Dilemma Was Handled in 1934
The White House seder, 2013. Obama White House Archived Flickr page. Photo credit: Pete Souza.
The White House Seder
Fans wear masks at a Georgia Tech football game during the Spanish Flu, 1918. Andy McNeil. Photo credit: Thomas Carter.
Covid-19 Parallels in History
Rankin's Rantin Feature Image
Rankin's Rantin'
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Louis
Rebuking Hitler Feature Image
Rebuking Hitler: Otto Wels and his Speech Against Nazism
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