WHERES AND WHYFORS

Lost and Found

Congratulations to on yet another terrific issue with your Spring 2018 edition. Excellent! One article that stood out to me from a point of personal interest was Marc G. DeSantis’s “This Frightful Catastrophe.” DeSantis did an excellent job of recounting in only seven magazine pages the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in northern Germany in ad 9—a clash that, as the author points out, has had tremendous long-term historical implications. Yet for centuries the exact location of the battle site had become “lost” to history, a fact emphasized by the photo of the massive Hermannsdenkmal (Hermann Monument),