Reading Time: 3 minutes Lyndon Johnson, who became President after the assassination JFK, watched it all slip away thanks to the Vietnam War
Tag: History
The lasting – and troubling – legacy of Martin Luther
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s now 500 years since Luther threw down the gauntlet, taking on the power of the papacy in an era predating the separation of church and state
A minibus ramble through Scottish Highland history
Reading Time: 4 minutes As our minibus pulled to a stop, I felt suddenly that my grandmother’s love of the Highland landscape was surrounding us all
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
The decline of the American Republic
Reading Time: 4 minutes The collapse of Ancient Rome sent the Western world into centuries of darkness. Let’s hope it isn’t happening again
The hardships of Orkney link to Canada’s early days
Reading Time: 4 minutes Displaced from their homes, many citizens of the Orkney islands ended up in Canada working for the Hudson Bay Company
The peculiar cult of Che Guevara
Reading Time: 3 minutes Guevara’s primary political instinct was totalitarian, with a propensity to violence
Decoding Orkney by channelling the subtle Norse air
Reading Time: 4 minutes A Scottish contribution to Canada’s Arctic genome can be found in the deep history of these remote islands
The high-flying rhetoric of the Sputnik scare
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sixty years ago, the Soviets put the first satellite in space, sparking concerns about technology and weapons superiority
John F. Kennedy: an anglophile for all seasons
Reading Time: 4 minutes The storied president was more English than Irish, despite being seen as the ultimate symbol of Irish-American success and social acceptance