On May 2, 1995 Serbian paramilitary forces from the breakaway Krajina region of Croatia rocketed the center of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, killing five and wounding 121. They used rocket-propelled cluster bombs, warheads that spray shrapnel in order to maximize the loss of human life, rather than the destruction of infrastructure or military assets. This…
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A Day Like No Other
I would have posted this yesterday, on June 4, but found myself enmeshed in what is sometimes called “a real goat rope” involving one of our online projects. So, this post is appearing a day later than it should, as will be apparent when you read what it’s about… Historians and pundits are fond of…
History After Communism
In the spring of 1995 I participated in a conference in LevoÄa, Slovakia on teaching about nationalism in post-Communist Europe. One of the participants, a member of the historical section of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, told us a story that day that summed up one of the most difficult issues faced by historians in…
Best History Museum Ever
I was in Budapest last week leading a study tour from my university and while there, a group of us visited the House of Terror (Terror Haza) museum. It was the best history museum I have ever visited (although this fact is not reflected in their website, which still needs work). The museum itself is…