The bodyguard, Count Franz von Harrach, described how a “thin stream of blood spurted” from the Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s mouth and how his wife, Sophie, fell, slumped “with her face between his knees.” The June 28th, 1914 assassination of this husband and wife team, destined as the next in line to take the throne of the Austrian Empire, rapidly disassembled ninety-nine years of (more…)
April 8, 2019
World War I: Instrument of Change
Posted by Joe Krulder under Blog Post | Tags: Ali ibn Husain, Arthur Zimmerman, Bethmann-Hollweg, Black Hand, Franz Ferdinand, Franz von Harrach, Genocide, Gertrude Bell, James Balfour, Keir Lieber, Lenin, Rosalia Luxemburg, Sir Henry McMahon, World War I |Leave a Comment
June 14, 2016
Bell of Arabia? Queen of the Desert? New Archive Discovered
Posted by Joe Krulder under Blog Post | Tags: British Empire, Gertrude Bell, History, Ottoman Empire, WWI |Leave a Comment
My love of teaching armed with little more than primary materials continues to grow. In searching for documents explaining the demise of the Ottoman Empire, fin de siècle, I stumbled upon the Gertrude Bell Archive, hosted by Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
It’s not pretty, as far as website appearances go. But (more…)
