Reading Time: 3 minutes A classic case of victor’s justice masquerading as a modern judicial proceeding
Tag: History
The unlikely pair who defrosted the Cold War
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reagan and Gorbachev managed to do what had seemed impossible, essentially ending the Cold War 30 years ago this month
Canadian transcontinental railroad 130 years old Nov 7
Reading Time: 3 minutes On November 7, 1885, the railroad’s ceremonial last spike was driven in Craigellachie, BC
Battle of Agincourt one of the most famous battles in history
Reading Time: 3 minutes “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers”
Eisenhower’s heart attack and the state of presidential medicine
Reading Time: 3 minutes Even the most powerful man on earth doesn’t always get the best medical care
Robert Conquest, the man who was right
Reading Time: 3 minutes Apologists for the Soviet Union and Stalin in particular, according to Conquest, suffered a form of “mental aberration”
Eamon de Valera Ireland’s most controversial politician
Reading Time: 4 minutes Militant revolutionary, prime player in the Civil War and prime minister for 21 years
1955 Great Powers summit Khrushchev’s introduction to the world
Reading Time: 3 minutes Eisenhower was cool about going, but at least he learned who had replaced Stalin
Napoleon’s Waterloo was 200 years ago
Reading Time: 3 minutes But it may have been better for Europe if he had won
Magna Carta 800 years old this month
Reading Time: 3 minutes Initially a simple power grab by the aristocracy, the “Great Charter” inadvertently led to parliamentary government