Over the past few weeks, we have been talking a lot about image.  We live in a culture where the perception of how we are viewed by our peers is more important than ever before.  Social media, phone apps and the ability for individual expression has made younger Americans more aware of not only outward appearance, but how others perceive what they believe. Some have labeled them as “thought poli...  Read More

On this day in 1940, the first transport of Polish political prisoners arrived at Auschwitz, which became Nazi Germany's largest concentration, extermination, and slave-labor camp, where more than one million people died. Also on this day, German forces entered Paris, beginning a four-year occupation of the French city.On this day in 1963, the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 5 was launched, and two days ...  Read More