On June 25, 1950, North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel to invade the fledgling democratic south. Amidst changing borders, victories, and defeats, hundreds of thousands of Koreans from the North escaped to the South in the hopes of finding freedom. Two of these refugees were my grandfathers. My maternal grandfather grew up in Pyongyang...
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Prof. Barry Strauss ’74 Discusses New Book, ‘The Death of Caesar’
Shakespeare was a playwright, not a historian, says Professor Barry Strauss ’74, so we should not expect him to tell the true story of the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 B.C. That does not mean the true story is any less entertaining. Strauss is the Chair of the History Department...