Reading Time: 4 minutes Regardless of the British reaction to Wilson’s death, the Irish civil war was likely to happen
Tag: History books
Fenians used Canada as an Irish revolutionary pawn
Reading Time: 4 minutes There were five failed armed Fenian incursions into Canada between 1866 and 1871
Hereditary empires and the struggle with modernity
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hereditary dynasties could not survive the industrial revolution. Well, except for one
War and brutality go hand in hand
Reading Time: 3 minutes Combat naturally leads to behaviours that would be deemed shocking in normal life
Wheat makes the world go round
Reading Time: 4 minutes Wheat is one of the world’s staple crops. And Ukraine and Russia are critical exporters
The last children of Anglo-Saxon England
Reading Time: 4 minutes For the upper class of England, the Norman conquest was wipe out time
Silent Witness of a Holocaust Suitcase
Reading Time: 5 minutes A Canadian family helped solve the mystery of a teenage girl’s life and death at Auschwitz
A revisionist history of who won the U.S. Civil War
Reading Time: 4 minutes While history may show the South lost on the battlefields, it may have won the war of ideas and influence more than 150 years after the last shot was fired
Adolf Hitler’s fateful mistake
Reading Time: 4 minutes If Hitler had declared war on Japan in support of the U.S., he might have kept the U.S. out of the European war. And that would have changed history
Diving into man’s complicated relationship with war
Reading Time: 4 minutes From ancient Sparta to Rome to Prussia, cultures have elevated personal characteristics associated with battlefield success