Reading Time: 3 minutes While it might be silly to argue the Berlin Wall came down because of Ronald Reagan, he demonstrated unusual prescience about the Soviet Union’s fragility
Tag: History
Civil law under attack from new and powerful enemy
Reading Time: 4 minutes The disproportionate impact of activists through social media could swamp legally-held rights and trample on centuries of legal history
The Road to Camelot offers fresh insights into JFK mythology
Reading Time: 3 minutes 2017 is John F. Kennedy’s centenary year and a new book offers a deep dive into the details of his successful 1960 U.S. presidential campaign
Mystery still swirls around Hitler’s death 72 years later
Reading Time: 10 minutes Barring the release of some smoking gun document buried in intelligence archives, the question of whether Hitler died in his bunker will probably never be settled
The power of Fatima and Catholic mysticism
Reading Time: 3 minutes One hundred years after three Portuguese children reported seeing an apparition while they tended a flock of sheep, the story of Our Lady of Fatima endures
The failed fight against fascism
Reading Time: 3 minutes The bombing of Guernica was a flashpoint in the Spanish Civil War, which became a microcosm of worldwide political and ideological schisms for years to come
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
How being politically correct can muddy complex waters
Reading Time: 3 minutes University of Calgary’s “cultural engagement” guidelines bear little resemblance to the complex relationship that existed between aboriginals and later immigrants
Looking back at leadership: rating the U.S. presidents
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s no surprise the top spots go to the usual trio of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But things get interesting after that
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