Queensborough Community College Department of History

10/12/2026

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A reminder that CUNY colleges are closed today. For important dates on the academic calendar, go to cuny.edu/calendar

10/09/2026

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Reminder: The College will be closed on Monday, October 12, no classes will be held.

On Tuesday, October 13, classes will follow a Monday schedule.

10/08/2026

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10/07/2026

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Master of the macabre and father of detective fiction, Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore on October 7, 1849.

His poems and stories like "The Raven", "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" imagined a new, darker mode of American storytelling and proved key to the development of Gothic literature.

But perhaps his greatest mystery was around his own death → https://to.pbs.org/2sJBfwJ

📸: Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, MD, 1896 (Alfred S. Campbell/Library of Congress)

10/05/2026

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"From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever!"

With these words, Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph surrendered to U.S. Army forces on October 5, 1877, after a four month campaign of armed resistance to the government's plan of forced relocation.

📸: Portrait of Chief Joseph by Edward S. Curtis, 1903 (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)

10/04/2026

On October 5, 1789 a crowd of Parisian women marched to Versailles and confronted Louis XVI. They demanded bread, an end to inflation, the abolition of Feudalism and that the King and his court be moved to Paris. They killed some of his guards before forcing him back to Paris.

Image Source: The Women's March on Versailles, 1789. (Bibliothèque nationale de France/Steve Strummer/Wikimedia Commons)

10/02/2026

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On October 1, 1946, the International Military Tribunal issued verdicts for top N**i leaders. Among those convicted and sentenced to death were Hermann Göring, one of the post powerful men under Adolf Hi**er; Joachim von Ribbentrop, N**i Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Wilhelm Keitel, the commander of the German armed forces.

Though a token few N**i leaders were tried by the IMT, it set important legal precedents and shaped international law today. 📷: Wikimedia

09/29/2026

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When Adolf Hi**er became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, he was determined to overturn the military and territorial prov...

09/29/2026

At Babi Yar in late September 1941, SS and German police units and their auxiliaries perpetrated one of the largest massacres of World War II.

09/28/2026

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