Ergebnis für "John Long" in Welt

One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a haze of memory, often seen merely as a distant preamble to World War II. In The Long Shadow critically-acclaimed historian David Reynolds seeks to broaden our vision by assessing the impact of the Great War across the twentieth century. He shows how events in that turbulent century—particularly World War II, the Cold War, and the collapse of Communism—shaped and reshaped attitudes to 1914–18.

Grab your detective gear and dive into John Oliver Smith's ancestry with his AI-savvy wife, Iran Davar Ardalan. "Long Sought" is a podcast exploring John's German-American heritage, enhanced by CK, an AI co-host adding flavor to the journey. Discover the allure of uncovering hidden roots.

On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a...

An exciting history told with a novelist's eye and filled with intimate details of the longest and largest battle of WWII—the fight for the Atlantic Ocean. Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, just one really scared him—what he called the...

A soda fountain in the 1920s. A former bootlegger who opened a bar just as Prohibition was ending. A family who turned it into a neighborhood institution for nearly a century. Through oral histories, archival audio, and the voices of the people who lived it, this documentary tells the story of The Fountain — a neighborhood landmark where generations gathered, celebrated, worked, and made memories. Albany history at its finest.