Sherraden Keynotes Anniversary Celebration, Book Launch
At the June celebration, CSD’s founder traced the evolution of the asset-building movement and celebrated the release of a compelling new book on its development in Italy. In 1595, the citizens of Turin, Italy, established a foundation to provide dowries for young women whose families could not afford them. The effort was seen as a […]
Why Treblinka, part of ‘the largest single murder campaign within the Holocaust,’ remains unknown to Americans
The Evolution of Mass Murder
Forensic Archaeological Perspectives on Mass Violence at the Treblinka Labor and Extermination Camps
Learning the French way to better health
After a pandemic pause, WashU undergrads were back at Hôpital Pasteur on the French Riviera over the summer, learning why the French live healthier and longer than anyone else in the industrialized world.
“Lest We Forget”
Since 2014, the Italian-German photographer Luigi Toscano has created portraits of more than 500 Holocaust survivors. In 2022, Toscano traveled to St. Louis to photograph 12 survivors living here.
Field notes on Portuguese Azores
Volcanic craters, fumaroles, and hot springs mark the landscape of São Miguel Island, in the remote Portuguese Azores, where WashU undergraduates studied field geology techniques over spring break.
Mike Lützeler Contemporary German Literature Collection
Built in cooperation with Olin Library, it is the largest collection of contemporary German literature since 1985 at an American university library.