Events and epochs prior to the First World War, and after that anything that does not fit into any particular category of the era of the world wars or the post-WWII and cold war era. This does also include the subcategory of U.S. history, if the events dealt with do not fit in any of the other categories or is of special interest, like the U.S. Civil War or 9/11 and its aftermath.
By Jett Rucker ∙ November 18, 2015
It will require a war—a big, long war, the kind that causes millions upon millions of deaths and uproots and disperses many millions more besides. You can’t have a Holocaust without these things. But first, let me clarify exactly what I mean by a “Holocaust.” I’m not talking about whatever happened to so many of…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ November 30, 2014
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government’s Secret Germ Laboratory, by Michael Christopher Carroll, Harper, New York, 2004, 301 pp. Lab 257 examines the history of the US Government’s Animal Disease Center on Plum Island, New York. Plum Island is a small island (3 miles long and 1 mile wide) situated off the eastern…
By Jett Rucker ∙ July 1, 2013
Thomas Dalton’s article in this issue, “The Jewish Hand in the World Wars,” details successes of small groups of influential Jews in gaining control of the governmental apparatus in many countries, including notional democracies such as the United States. The process seems for the first time to have become visible in the record by the…
By Jett Rucker ∙ December 1, 2013
The prospect of American military intervention in the Syrian imbroglio dominated global news through most of this September past. As the situation festered, it appeared that the Obama administration had in mind to fire a number of its super-accurate missiles into Syrian territory to “punish” the forces—said to be the legacy government of Syria—that had…
By Jett Rucker ∙ October 1, 2013
Until very recently, a map clearly predating Columbus’s first voyage of discovery was widely considered evidence that Norsemen had “discovered” North America first. In fact, at the time it came to light (that is, onto the market), it constituted the best, if not the only evidence of this notion; discovery and dating of Norse settlements…
By Ralph Raico ∙ December 1, 2013
The changes wrought in America during the First World War were so profound that one scholar has referred to “the Wilsonian Revolution in government.”[1] Like other revolutions, it was preceded by an intellectual transformation, as the philosophy of progressivism came to dominate political discourse.[2] Progressive notions – of the obsolescence of laissez-faire and of constitutionally…
By Ralph Raico ∙ April 1, 2013
With the onset of war in Europe, hostilities began in the North Atlantic which eventually provided the context – or rather, pretext – for America’s participation. Immediately, questions of the rights of neutrals and belligerents leapt to the fore. In 1909, an international conference had produced the Declaration of London, a statement of international law…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ April 1, 2013
“Article 1 – The Legislative Branch; Section 8 – Powers of Congress To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.” —Constitution of the United States[1] Revisionists are typically quick to condemn President Franklin Roosevelt for his actions, which cast the United States into the Second…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ December 1, 2012
By Erik Larson. Crown Publishing Group, New York, 2011, 448 pp. By June 1933, the “Nazis”—a new word in the world’s lexicon—had held power in Germany for almost six months, and were not expected to last, unlikely characters as virtually all of them were. The American ambassador to Germany had left his post shortly after…
By Lou A. Rollins ∙ April 1, 2011
by James Scott, Simon and Schuster, New York, N.Y., 2009, hardcover, 374 pages. “With friends like these, who needs enemies?”—familiar saying In June 1967, during the Six-Day War, Israeli air and naval forces attacked the American spy ship the USS Liberty in the Mediterranean Sea killing 34 and wounding 171 of the crew members. James…
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