Daniella Garran, M.A.

The Holocaust is a fascinating study of human behavior. While the Nazis worked tirelessly to dehumanize their victims, in the face of this there were tremendous acts of humanity and kindness. The...

As the Holocaust got underway, people all over Europe were reluctant to believe that something so awful was happening. Most people didn't want to believe that man was capable of such inhumanity to...

Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch missionary, saved many Jews dring the Holocaust. Her family built a hiding room where they harbored many local Jews. A novel entitled The Hiding Place, published in 1971,...

I read Catcher in the ninth grade and many of my former students read it as freshmen too. It was one of literally four books I enjoyed reading in high school (others were Lord of the Flies, All...

Men and women in the Paleolithic era were nomadic hunters and gatherers. Since they had to follow their food source, the women gathered berries and plants while the men were out hunting. Women were...

Wiesel writes, "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed." Having seen what he saw in the...

Ancient Mesopotamia was settled in "the Cradle of Civilization" between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers in what is modern-day Iraq. The Mesopotamian city-states were based on a social hierarchy...