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 Donald Neff ∙ July 1, 1996
Donald Neff is the author of several books on US-Middle East relations, including the 1995 study, Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy Toward Palestine and Israel Since 1945, and his 1988 Warriors trilogy. This article is reprinted from the July 1996 issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (P.O. Box 53062, Washington, DC 20009). On…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 20, 1999
In a new book that proves he would rather be right than President, Patrick J. Buchanan has provoked the most heated public discussion about World War II history in many years. In A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny (Regnery), the well-known journalist, commentator and presidential candidate eloquently pleads for a US foreign policy…
By Doug Bandow ∙ March 1, 1996
Doug Bandow is the author of The Politics of Plunder: Misgovernment in Washington and The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology, both published by Transaction. This essay is reprinted from the March 1996 issue of Freedom Daily, published monthly by the The Future of Freedom Foundation (11350 Random Hills Rd., Ste. 800, Fairfax, VA 22030)….
By Zoltán Bruckner ∙ May 15, 1999
Zoltán Bruckner was born in 1930 in Hungary, where he also grew up and studied theology and engineering. He left Hungary in the wake of the 1956 uprising. He holds a Master’s degree in civil engineering, and has worked in Austria, the United States and Sweden (where he currently resides). He has long had a…
By Mark Weber ∙ February 15, 1999
Germany is not the country it once was. On the positive side, Germans today are more prosperous and have more free time than ever. For some years now, the Bonn republic has led the world in non-working time. But todays Germans also differ from their grandparents and great-grandparents in other, more ominous ways. The people…
By Mark Weber ∙ December 15, 1998
For more than 40 years, the company founded and built by Walt Disney offered popular, well-crafted entertainment that upheld American values and traditions. Its films and television programming – even if sometimes sugary – epitomized, to use the much-mocked phrase, wholesome family entertainment. It was the work largely of one man, Walter Elias Disney (1901–1966),…
By Victor Marchetti ∙ April 1, 1994
This essay is reprinted from the April 1, 1994, issue of New American View, a newsletter edited by Victor Marchetti. (It is no longer published.) Marchetti served for 14 years with the CIA, where he rose to be executive assistant to the deputy director. His book, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, co-authored with…
By Donald Neff ∙ January 1, 1997
Donald Neff is author of several books on US-Middle East relations, including the 1995 study, Fallen Pillars: US. Policy Toward Palestine and Israel Since 1945, and his 1988 Warriors trilogy. This article is reprinted from the January-February 1997 issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (P.O. Box 53062, Washington, DC 20009). In January…
By Abdullah Mohammad Sindi ∙ December 15, 1998
Abdullah Mohammad Sindi, a native of Saudi Arabia, lives and works in California. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from California State University, Sacramento. In 1978 Sindi received a doctorate in international relations from the University of Southern California. He has also studied at the University of Grenoble (France), the University of Poitiers in Tours…
By Mark Twain ∙ September 1, 1870
The tendency to idealize the Indian is hardly new in American history. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), a master debunker of cant and hokum, voiced his contempt for worshipful depictions of America’s aboriginal inhabitants in the following essay, which originally appeared in the September 1870 issue of The Galaxy. Mark Twain In books he is tall…
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