Tag Archive: Anne Sebba

Celebrating Women’s History Month in 2021

Posted on March 8, 2021 12:00 pm Published by test

by The History Reader

In 1981, Congress declared the week of March 7th as “Women’s History Week.” This was between second and third-wave feminism, so people did not think one week was enough. After many petitions, Congress officially dedicated the

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Paris Abandoned: The Realities of Armistice During World War II

Posted on October 12, 2017 4:16 pm Published by hradmin 1 Comment

by Anne Sebba

Slowly, the terms of the armistice began to sink in. The French had to pay for the 300,000-strong German Army of Occupation, amounting to twenty million Reichsmarks per day, paid at the artificial exchange rate. This was … Read the article

Cecile Rol-Tanguy: Fighting for the Liberation of Paris

Posted on October 21, 2016 1:49 pm Published by hradmin Leave your thoughts

by Anne Sebba

On 6 June 1944 Allied forces began the long-awaited invasion of northern France. Operation Overlord, code-name for the Normandy landings, was the largest seaborne invasion in history. British, American and Canadian forces landed on a fifty-mile … Read the article