What, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes isn’t enough for you? I majored in history, and even though my Middle Eastern history is a bit dusty, I found Persepolis to be a very compelling perspective on the Islamic Revolution and Iran’s history in the 70s and 80s. I encourage you all to learn more about Iran’s history [...]
I was honored by being chosen to be the undergraduate speaker for the history graduation ceremony for Stanford’s Graduation activities on June 17, 2007. Here’s the text of my speech, for posterity: Thank you. For the past four years, when many of my peers asked what I majored in and I told them it was [...]
I’m not a religious person. Never have, never will be. For the past three years, I’ve worked at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, an institute as old as I am (22) which began when Coretta Scott King asked Clayborne Carson, the director of the institute, to compile King’s papers, sermons, and [...]
I’m happy to say that my name is in a published book! For the past three years, I have worked at the MLK Research and Education Institute. For the past 20 years, Clayborne Carson has edited the papers of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Although the book is primarily academic, it chronicles the development of [...]
A big historical mystery has been solved- Freud did have an affair with his wife’s younger sister, Minna Bernays. It was reported in the New York Times on Christmas Eve. Franz Maciejewski, a sociologist formerly at the University of Heidelberg, tracked down a leather-bound ledger that shows Freud and Minna Bernays stayed in the Schweizerhaus, [...]