History should have the force to slap you smack in the face, seeing your body hit the pavement hard, and then it spits in your eye just when you thought it was safe to look. In my history classes I try to teach history as a full on onslaught onto my student’s senses. History…

This weekend, starting at the period of nightfall on Saturday night until sunset Sunday, will mark the magnificent Jewish Holy Day of Purim. This is one of the biggest celebrations of happiness as we recount the fact that the Jews of Persia, as well as the net of the world-wide Jewish community at the time,…

Hip Hop culture has been chronicled in various ways over its four decades of existence. Many scholars have attempted, and some very successfully, to write or compile works on the culture, and its most popular form – rap music. One of the most recent history lessons has come, not from a prominent scholar, but from…