Pamela Ballinger

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…

Fields of Study: Human rights, refugees and displacement, memory, fascism seascapes and coastal issues, Italy, Croatia/ex-Yugoslavia: Selected Publications: "At the Borders of Force." In Postwar Reconstruction in Europe: International Perspectives, 1945-1948. Mark Mazower, David Feldman, and Jessica Reinisch, eds. Past and Present Supplement Series 210. (2011), "Socialist Secularism: Gender, Religion, and Muslim Women's Emancipation in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, 1945-1991." Co-authored with Kristen Ghodsee. Aspasia 5: 6-27. (2011), La Memoria dell’Esilio: Esodo e Identità nella Marca Giuliana. Rome: Veltro Editrice. Italian translation of History in Exile (Princeton University Press, 2003), with a new preface.

History in Exile

November 12, 2012

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1032699.History_in_Exile History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans by Pamela Ballinger In…

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