“Only by remembering xenophobia’s first instantiation do we bring these broader battles into focus.” Uncovering the origins of a word: stenography, kooky linguistic debates, Romanian ultra-nationalism, the Boxer rebellion, and the stranger-as-enemy rel…
Fun with place name patterns
Peer into the Europe’s past by looking at place names, for example to see the range of Roman conquest of Britain or the historical borders of Poland and Silesia.