Otto's Random Thoughts

Today is the 64th anniversary of the Christiansborg Crossroads Shootings. On 28 February 1948 a British police officer fired on a demonstrat...

For some reason this semester I have a teaching schedule that does not agree with my bio-rhythms. I have to teach from 3:30 to 5:30 on Frida...

I have now finished sending off my paper on cotton in German Togoland. It is my second publication dealing at least in part with an African ...

I just finished sending off the cotton paper. These things usually ask for a short autobiography and I try and keep them as short and simple...

Yesterday at lunch I was eating banku and okra stew at the night market. I also had two bags of water to wash it down with. The woman across...

Today is the 68th anniversary of Stalin's deportation of the Chechens and Ingush to special settlement restrictions in Kazakhstan an...

I am pretty sure that the number of people who read this blog who might possibly have access to full text articles on SpringerLink is probab...

I had thought that the North Caucasus was ethnically complex before I came to Ghana. But, today after hearing another presentation on ethnic...

Today after I finished teaching my 7:30 am class on European history from 1789 to 1945 I did some work revising my paper on cotton in German...

GKO Order 1281ss ordered the forced mobilization of Russian-Germans living in the eastern regions of the USSR before 1941 into the labor arm...

"On Mobilizing Germans- Men of Conscript Age from 17 to 50 Years, Permanently Living in Oblasts, Krais, Autonomous and Union Republics....

Arizona was the last state in the lower 48 to join the union. It officially became a state exactly a century ago on 14 February 1912. Of all...

Last night I stayed up until eleven pm to take my malaria medicine. Then I got up in the night twice before having to get up at six am for m...

Wednesday night the power cord to my laptop died. I had to go get a new one. I was going to do it on Thursday, but ran out of time and money...

Last night and earlier today I did not feel so well. But, now the anti-malarial drugs seem to have kicked in and I feel pretty good. My firs...

I think I am going to have to scale back my grandiose plans for the weekend due to having contracted malaria. Next weekend I should be physi...

Yesterday I spent most of my time running around. I walked so much my feet hurt. Fortunately, on my last trip a man calling out "white ...

Today I ate lunch at the Lebanese cafe in Maxi Mart. The food was good, but way over priced.

Today Ghana lost to Zambia 0-1 in the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations. The Black Stars had a good run. On Sunday they will play the...

Aspects of World History since 1945 HIST 418 Spring 2012 Department of History University of Ghana J. Otto Pohl, Ph.D. Meeting T...