A Sanctuary in the East: Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
By the late 1930s, Nazi Germany had made life unbearable for Jewish citizens in Europe. Stripped of their rights, livelihoods, and...
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Lucy Kaplan
- 4 days ago
Women Throughout History: Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was a very impressive woman, but that almost goes without saying. Yet people said it quite a lot. Her husband, John Adams,...
Zhaoyang Zhang
- Sep 15
The Market Revolution and the Passenger Pigeon
Mesmerized by the beauty of the passenger pigeons, John James Audubon, a famous naturalist, once wrote, “I cannot describe to you the...
Caroline Zeng
- Sep 10
Fight or Flight: The History of the Flying of Man
Today, ballooning may seem like a simple endeavor. We all understand how a balloon can carry the difference between its weight (including...
Caroline Zeng
- Sep 3
An Award for the Greatest Benefit to Humankind
On November 27, 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his third and last will at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris. When it was opened and read...
Emily Park
- Aug 30
The Relative Universality of Human Rights
It is a Western-believed archetype that human rights are “universal” because as humans, we are endowed with rights to principles such as...
Emily Park
- Aug 30
Human Rights as an Issue in World Politics
There is a global, wide spread struggle for human rights with a reported 60% of nations and 40% of the world’s population systematically...
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