Monthly Archives: November 2010

Timeline for 'Veterans Day' presented by Google.

Veterans Day Interest Spikes

posted: November 11th, 2010 1:47 PM

Google has some interesting additions to their search results. You can now see ‘Related Searches’, a ‘Wonder wheel’, and a ‘Timeline’. I think the timeline may have been there for a while. It was for Google News, at least. Anyhow, while checking the RSS feeds today, I noticed the Google doodle for today is about [...]

German History - Dealing with the knot of Nazi Past

German Sonderweg

posted: November 10th, 2010 1:23 PM

This is an essay I wrote for a Directed Readings course in Fall 2009, with Marion Deshmukh. The Sonderweg of German History Before 1940s there was a positive Sonderweg thesis that promoted favorably the differences of Germany from other Western nations.[1] This is similar to what every nation does, showing their best side, why they [...]