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The Bitburg controversy concerned a ceremonial visit by Ronald Reagan, the incumbent President of the United States, to a German military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany in May 1985.
The Regional Museum of Bitburg-Prüm is housed in a former agricultural school. It contains numerous artifacts of the history of Bitburg and the Eifel Region in general. In the cultural centre Haus Beda are exhibited works of the Düsseldorf painter Fritz von Wille (1860–1941), the Eifel's most widely
The Historikerstreit (German: [hɪsˈtoːʁɪkɐˌʃtʁaɪt] ⓘ, "historians' dispute") [1] was a dispute in the late 1980s in West Germany between conservative and left-of-center academics and other intellectuals about how to incorporate Nazi Germany and the Holocaust into German historiography, and more generally into the German people's view of themselves. [2]
"Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" is a protest song by American punk rock band the Ramones. It was issued as a single in the UK by Beggars Banquet Records in mid-1985. The song is an emotionally charged commentary on the Bitburg controversy from earlier that year, in which U.S. president Ronald Reagan had paid a state visit to a German World War II cemetery and gave a speech where numerous Waffen-SS ...
An exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Museums not only collect and preserve historic and cultural material, their basic purpose is educational or aesthetic. The first African American museum was the College Museum in Hampton, Virginia , established in 1868. [ 2 ]
May 22 – Chief Bender, Native American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics) (b. 1884) May 25 – Robert Capa, photojournalist (killed on location in Vietnam) (b. 1913 in Hungary) June 9 – Alain LeRoy Locke, African American cultural leader (b. 1885) June 21 – Harvey A. Carr, psychologist (b. 1873) June 22 – Don Hollenbeck ...
The $1.7 billion deal was the largest in housing industry history. There are now Del Webb communities in 18 states. Other big developers have followed the same trend.
Benny Andrews and others [6] organized the BECC to protest the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s documentary exhibition, “Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900–68,” [7] that did not include one painting or sculpture by a Harlem-based artist.