Reading Time: 3 minutes Historians are divided on Josef Stalin’s intent in the Ukraine that resulted in millions of deaths. Anne Applebaum’s new book has revived the dispute
Tag: History
Hasty conclusions about the past can result in lost opportunities
Reading Time: 3 minutes Monuments often reveal important stories, but can gloss over details. Unless we examine the facts closely, we can end up with a sanitized view of history
Dunkirk and the maligned Belgians
Reading Time: 4 minutes When disaster comes calling, shifting the blame is generally not too far behind, and war is the perfect setting for laying blame
Diana’s bad bargain and her enduring mythology
Reading Time: 3 minutes While popular opinion may cast her as a victim, it’s hard to imagine that she’d have given Charles a second thought if he wasn’t the Prince of Wales
Statues tell a story that people need to hear
Reading Time: 3 minutes You could fill volumes with the uncomfortable statements uttered in the past by people whom we now revere, from Abraham Lincoln to Mahatma Gandhi
In search of a personal story thousands of years old
Reading Time: 3 minutes DNA-based research will provide you with insight into your ancestral origins, and you might be surprised by what you learn
A museum opts for happy hippy love bugs instead of honesty
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibit mythologizes the 1960s by ignoring the dark ugliness masked by all those drug-addled smiles
Irish Civil War left long memories and bitter divisions
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ninety years ago this month Irish cabinet minister Kevin O’Higgins was assassinated as payback for his role in the Irish Civil War that ended four years earlier
The Summer of Love was a media event, not a revolution
Reading Time: 3 minutes People across the globe, of all classes, loved the music but could live without the hippy idea, thank you very much
Amelia Earhart still fascinates but she wasn’t the only female flyer
Reading Time: 4 minutes Beryl Markham and Hanna Reitsch pursued aviation with passion in the early 20th century and took the same kind of risks. But their fates were less mysterious