by Susan | Nov 12, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 12, 1864 Union General William T. Sherman orders the business district of Atlanta, Georgia, destroyed before he embarks on his famous March to the Sea, to prevent the Confederates from recovering anything once the Yankees had abandoned it. November 12, 1948...
by Susan | Nov 11, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 11, 1918 At 11 o’clock in the morning of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the First World War comes to an end. “The War to End All Wars” took the life of some 9 million soldiers; 21 million more were wounded. Civilian casualties...
by Susan | Nov 10, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 10, 1928 The first installment of All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s acclaimed novel of World War I, appears in the German magazine Vossische Zeitung, marking him as an eloquent spokesperson for a generation that had been, in his own...
by Susan | Nov 9, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 9-10, 1938 In a night that came to be known as Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, Nazis looted and burned synagogues and Jewish-owned stores and homes, and beat and murdered Jewish men, women, and children across Germany and Austria. November 9, 1989...
