Looking at a rather nice picture of a park bench in Tanunda, South Australia, posted by @kevpeirce led me to read more about the town.
I was taken aback to read that it had been the hub of an organization the existence of which I had been hitherto unaware, the Australian branch of the Nazi party.
Image: National Library of Australia
Mexico: A History by Paul Gillingham and A Brief History of Violence in Mexico by Pablo Piccato start from different places, but the neighbour to the north proves to be an inescapable destination.
✍️ Mark Lawrence reviews two recent #history books
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/mexico-history-and-brief-history-violence-mexico-review
The only nationwide baseball league for women existed for a decade in Japan, and promoted the pastime to young people.
Sadly, it isn't around anymore, but some of the most exciting players in the game were part of the JWBL during their brief history.
Founded as the GPBL in 2009, the name changed in 2012 to JWBL. 2019 was the final season for women's professional baseball.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210115174554/http://www.jwbl.jp/
Louis Riel and His Place in Montana History
INTRODUCTION
Louis Riel (1844-1885) occupies an unusual position in North American history. Revered in Canada as a founding father of Manitoba and a defender of Metis rights, he is simultaneously a figure whose life extended southward into what is now the state of Montana -- a dimension...for further reading see link below.
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I've recently read "Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany" by Harald Jähner.
Specialists with a good knowledge of the political history of interwar Germany will probably agree with the criticisms of leading historian Richard Evans in his 29/11/ 24 TLS review, in which he notes the failure of the book to address important aspects of the republic's politics such as the nature of the constitution.
Evans goes on to criticise "Vertigo" as being overly focused on Berlin and its culture of modernity and its neglect of rural and small town Germany.
For a cultural history, though, this emphasis on Berlin is justified, because that metropolis was offering novel aspirations, norms, and ways of living for the country as a whole, even if the reaction to that agenda in much of rural Germany was one of suspicion, resentment, and finally hatred. One rural commentator Jähner quotes noted with bitterness the exodus of women to the city, "the mass grave of the German people", attracted as they were by "greed, by pleasure seeking, by hollow noise in every area of life, by noisy oriental Jewish nonsense in state politics, department stores and theatres."
I would guess that the these seductive possibilities were made known throughout the German speaking world by the mostly Berlin based media of cinema and the illustrated press. Even if the overwhelming majority of Germans neither actively participated in the new forms of art and entertainment flowering in Berlin nor experimented with new metropolitan practices and presentations in sex and gender, the very existence of this new culture could not do other than transform cultures beyond the metropolis, even if only by introducing within them a self-conscious note of antiurban antimodernity.
Jähner, a journalist, has a good feel for both aspects of everyday life that might pass unnoticed by too many historians, such as the yoyo craze of 1932, and also for the disparate and sometimes internally contradictory emotions, moods, and feelings underlying the republic's culture.
Although "Vertigo" is neither comprehensive nor unquestionable in its treatment of Weimar Germany , it is a rich and thoroughly readable resource for non-Germanists like me, and notable for its determination to treat the culture of the republic as worthy of examination and perhaps celebration in its own right, as opposed to being merely an interlude leading to the advent of the Third Reich.
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THE BLACKFEET INDIAN RESERVATION:
HOMELAND, HISTORY, AND CONTINUITY IN NORTHWESTERN MONTANA
INTRODUCTION
In the far northwestern corner of Montana, where the Rocky Mountain Front surrenders its jagged ridgelines to the rolling, wind-scoured plains of the high northern prairies, lies one of the most historically significant pieces of…for further reading see link below.
Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/blackfeet-indian-reservation
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American labor organizer, radical socialist, and anarcho-communist Lucy Parson died OTD in 1942 in a house fire in Chicago https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/new-york-revolutionary/?s=mb #travel #history
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