The sweep of family history across the generations
Historical blogging makes strange bedfellows. A French jewelry critic and I were both interested in the history of the Clerc jewelry business during the Nazi era
The Clerc jewelry assets were seized and resold to an Aryan buyer. The Nazis kept perfect records of the transactions.
How and why did Stan Ruby's important post-graduate research go wrong, and what impact did it have on his career in physics?
From stalwart Yankee roots, Herbert and Hattie Stetson went west with the country