Reading Time: 3 minutes 170 years ago the U.S. first created resentment in Mexico by annexing territory roughly equivalent in size to western Europe
Tag: History
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
Putting to rest a Fenian rebellion fantasy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Folklore and reality clash when it comes to examining North America’s role in quelling an Irish rebellion
Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
Reading Time: 3 minutes If legitimacy for armed insurrection requires some form of prior democratic mandate, then Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising failed the test
St. Patrick’s Day wasn’t always as benign as it is today
Reading Time: 3 minutes Toronto’s St. Patrick’s Day riot of 1858 began when an Orangeman used his horse-drawn cab to disrupt the parade
Of Popes and American politics
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you’ve a long memory and a thing for American politics, the Vatican’s recent anti-Trump intervention may have rung a bell
Could the UK actually leave the European Union?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The UK’s relationship to what is now called the European Union has always been ambivalent
When Khrushchev spilled the beans
Reading Time: 3 minutes 60 years this month Nikita Khrushchev blew the whistle on (the safely deceased) Josef Stalin’s crimes
Operation Desert Storm 25 years later
Reading Time: 3 minutes Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and the American response dramatically impacted the politics of the Middle East
King Arthur and the crafty monks of Glastonbury
Reading Time: 3 minutes Glastonbury Abbey perpetuated the King Arthur legend to find the money to rebuild their abbey which burnt-down in 1184