Indian Independence Day
08/15/2006
At midnight, August 15, 1947, by order of the Indian Independence Act passed one month earlier by the British Parliament, British India was divided into two dominions, India and Pakistan…. READ MORE
Category: European & World History
When a Cosmopolitan Was More than a Cocktail
07/17/2006
At a time when terrorism, globalization, and immigration debates have turned many Americans inward, a recent Wall Street Journal review of Margaret Jacob’s Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise… READ MORE
