Dr. Richard Blanke

World History

This Day In History

Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

Dr. Richard Blanke, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, she teach a variety of courses in modern European history with particular attention to central and eastern Europe, including the introductory survey of European Civilization II (HTY 106), a two-semester intermediate course sequence in 20th Century Europe (HTY 409.410), and alternating two-semester course sequences in Modern Germany (HTY 425.426) and Russian History (HTY 423.424). He also teach a graduate seminar in Modern European Historiography every other year and Senior Seminars on such topics as nationalism, totalitarianism, and “comparing the cultures.” His research has focused on nationalism and the national problems of central Europe; above all, on German-Polish issues. It has been supported by grants from the Fulbright Commission, American Council of Learned Societies, and the Research and Exchanges Board. He is a member of the German Studies Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the National Association of Scholars, the Association for the Study of Nationalities, and the Historical Society.

Polish Speaking Germans?

November 11, 2012

http://umaine.edu/history/faculty/dr-richard-blanke/ Polish Speaking Germans?: Language And National Identity Among The Masurians Since 1871 by Richard Blanke Representative…

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