Reading Time: 3 minutes The demise of the German Hohenzollerns led to Hitler, while the collapse of the Austrian Habsburgs gave rise to malignant nationalism
Tag: First World War
Second line of O Canada should read “Our home on native land”
Reading Time: 4 minutes One small change to the words of O Canada will remind us of our historic debt and help facilitate broader knowledge of Indigenous issues
Heroes and villains: how history picks the winners
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Second World War movie Darkest Hour raises questions about perspective and reality
Raphael Lemkin: the man who coined the word genocide
Reading Time: 3 minutes Lemkin lobbied tirelessly for the United Nations to adopt a definition of the word genocide
Easter 1917 marked a First World War turning point
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Canadians took Vimy Ridge and the Americans finally entered the war. But it would be folly to suggest that the U.S. won the war
The rise and fall of the Romanovs
Reading Time: 3 minutes 100 years ago this month, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated. In July of the following year, he and his immediate family were bayoneted, shot and mutilated
Divvying up the Middle East after First World War
Reading Time: 3 minutes Beating-up on Britain’s Sir Mark Sykes and France’s Francois Georges-Picot for today’s mess in the Middle East is just plain silly