Benjamin Hansen, a lecturer in the history department and expert in early Christianity, joins the Minnesota Daily podcast to talk about the origins of Halloween.
Through in-person examination, history PhD candidate Alex Magnolia found new discoveries and new conclusions in the correspondence of Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos.
Jews in America have routinely, even reflexively, turned to humor in navigating their identity. This talk explores how Jewish comedians have done so on stage, screen, and in…
Jews of color are much in the Jewish news. We hear about how there are a lot of Jews of color—more than we knew! We hear about how that is wrong—there are not so many Jews of…
In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was falsely accused of selling military secrets to Germany. After a hasty court martial and humiliating…
