The new semester began with a trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. The visit to the museum is always a humbling experience because one suddenly feels overwhelmed by a long list of questions as the tour guide leads us through the hallways while also describing the unimaginable sufferings...

Prior to the Holocaust, there had been an increasing reliance on scientific theory, such as social Darwinism, to explore differences between races and ethnic groups. Although this has now largely been discredited, Hitler and the Nazi party used pseudoscience as a way of classing certain people as Untermenschen, or people...

1). Examine the German and Jewish societies prior to the World War I. What type of social and religious activities and celebrations did they create or embrace? How were the employment stats prior to World War I? Before World War I, the Jews of Germany lived in peace and prosperity...

In his book American Holocaust, David Stannard tries to contextualize the colonization of America in a way that few writers have been willing to. While many have written with adoration about Columbus and his ventures, few have been willing to lay bare for all to see the misdeeds of Columbus...

Last Thursday, I paid a visit to Huston Holocaust Museum. It is clearly one of the most impressive sites I have ever seen. The museum itself was constructed in 1996 and is considered the fourth sizable museum in the United States in terms of the exposition to the given topic....