Stopped Cold: Remembering Russia's Catastrophic 1939 Campaign Against Finland
Many Finnish soldiers felt pity for their opponents, prodded into battle by merciless commissars.
Sean McMeekin
· 13 min read
History
A collection of 350 posts
Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review
Indeed, the title misleads: On Property focuses more on the historical threads linking the slave plantations to the abuses of modern policing than it does on its purported subject matter.
Jonathan Salem-Wiseman
· 8 min read
Anti-Colonialism's Bad History
Crimes, no matter how heinous, cannot be passed onto the progeny like some modern variant of the original sin, condemning them to unending purgatory.
Marian L. Tupy
· 6 min read
The Campaign to Thwart Paleogenetic Research Into North America's Indigenous Peoples
In the north, the Maritime Archaic gave way to Pre-Dorset Palaeoeskimos (as they are known in the literature) that had recently arrived from Siberia.
Bruce Bourque
· 20 min read
Houses of Horrors
In some former British colonies, confronting the dispossession and murder of native peoples has prompted efforts at apology and restitution.
John Lloyd
· 14 min read
Fulton and the Case Against Normalcy
A long-ago speech by a foreign dignitary may hold the key to recovering some lost wisdom about how America came into this role in the first place.
Brian Stewart
· 11 min read
Fifty Years of Fear and Loathing
Finding out the truth about any aspect of Hunter Thompson’s life is frustrating given his propensity for self-mythologising.
David S. Wills
· 14 min read
Sex, Drugs, and Antiquity
The underlying assumption of The Immortality Key is that the human need to reconcile itself with death is a core element of religion.
Clifton Ross
· 10 min read
The New Age of Empire—A Review
Andrews believes none of this. He is right in seeing that the United States is now the world’s foremost imperial nation—it dominated most of the 20th century, assuming the white man’s burden from the British and the French.
John Lloyd
· 15 min read
Bunker Boy: Preparing for Apocalypse Since 1979
The film gave me nightmares and panic attacks. I did what I could with such difficult information.
Ewan Morrison
· 12 min read
The Podcaster Who (Single-handledly) Made Me Love History
A huge part of Duncan’s appeal is his humble, layman’s approach.
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
Dictatorship and Responsibility in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s political culture is being dismantled.
Peter Baehr
· 16 min read
The Value of Knowledge
When we value skills over knowledge, we get doctors who can’t name a supreme court justice.
Daniel Buck
· 10 min read
Republicans' Lyceum Moment—and America's
In the present moment, reverence for the law is not yet (or is no longer) a political religion in the United States.
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
Ray Russell's Incubus: A Lost Gem from America's Twentieth Decade
Hard as it might be to believe, the years that stretched from roughly 1967 through the bicentennial year of 1976 brought even more foment, outrage, unrest, and upheaval to America than the most recent decade has managed. The escalation of the Vietnam War, the student protests against that war, the
Kevin Mims
· 15 min read