1914 and Christmas: What Might Have Been
As Americans come to dread the increasingly bromidic nature of the festive season (where, that is, they are still allowed to celebrate Christmas...
History
George Washington’s First Final Farewell
A generation after George Washington’s Christmastime farewell to his troops and to the Congress who commissioned him in 1775, Clement Clarke Moore penned...
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Pearl Harbor: A True Day of Infamy
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. But was the surprise attack really a "surprise"? The...
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Hidden History of the Winter War
November 30, 1939 marks the 70th anniversary of one of the most misunderstood wars of the 20th Century, the “Winter War” between Stalin’s...
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The 60th Anniversary of Orwell’s 1984
Sixty years following its first publication and twenty-five since the fateful year, George Orwell’s 1984 remains a mystery to the experts. They convene...
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In Government, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
In politics, it seems, nothing succeeds like failure. The most successful men in American political history are its most spectacular failures. Consider that...
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Archaelogists Uncover Ancient Persian Army
Give Herodotus his due: the fifth-century B.C. Greek historian had a far better understanding of the history of his age than many modern...
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Nazis & Communists: Ideological Bedfellows
Benito Mussolini has an infamous place in modern history, as well he should. Nearly everyone knows Mussolini as the dictator of Fascist Italy...
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Remembering the Mass-murderer Mao
The statement by Anita Dunn, Obama’s Communications Director, describing Mao Tse-tung (aka Mao Zedong) as one of her two favorite philosophers, is, of...
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Remembering Geoffrey Chaucer
This October 25 marks the 609th anniversary of the death of Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the most famous writers in the history of...
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Popular Presidents
In 1909, in the great state of Illinois, school teachers one February day were directed to spend at least half the school day...
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Mussolini Worked for British Intelligence
Reuters reported on October 14 that Benito Mussolini had been in the pay of British intelligence services during the First World War. The...
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Celebrating Columbus Day
Columbus Day — once a time to celebrate one of the heroes of modern Western Civilization — is dying a slow death. Besieged...
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The Oldest Constitutional Republic
The Constitution of San Marino was adopted on October 8, 1600, making the tiny European enclave arguably the world's oldest constitutional republic. ...
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Declining Population Accompanied Rome’s Rise to Empire
Following in the wake of the news of the discovery of Nero’s extravagant banquet hall, another archaeological find is revealing even more about...
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