Category: News
Acts of Defiance – A Short History of Mutiny in the U.S. Military
“In a number of cases, American soldiers, sailors and airmen have protested orders, defied their commanders and even risen in open rebellion. Consider these examples.” IN SEPTEMBER 2013, cyberspace was a-buzz with photos of what…
Companies Behaving Badly – The Wartime Histories Some Corporations Wish We’d Just Forget
“Holocaust survivors and their families charged that Hugo Boss used forced labour during the war. Eventually, the company paid more than 700,000 Euros to a victims memorial fund.” THEY SAY THAT there is no such thing…
One Journalist Asks: Do Battle Reenactments Trivialize History?
“One professional historian maintains that the roaring cannon and flashing musketry of these popular recreations reduce major historical events to little more than noisome spectacles.” AFTER LAST week’s 150th anniversary celebrations at Gettysburg, one living historian…
Centuries of Bloodshed — Chechnya’s Long History of Unrest
FOLLOWING FRIDAY’S revelation that the perpetrators of last week’s Boston Marathon bombings originally hailed from Chechnya, the media has been serving up something of a refresher course on the troubled republic, which sits on Russia’s…
Ironclad Sailors to be Laid to Rest Friday
For the officers and crew of the U.S. Navy’s first iron warship, USS Monitor, tragedy struck on the last day of 1862. While being towed through stormy seas less than 20 miles off the coast…
Modern Day Pilots To Refly Secret Wartime Mission
Last week, we shared the story of the joint Anglo-Soviet invasion and occupation of Iran in 1941. The operation, which was planned just weeks after the Nazi invasion of Russia, was intended to open a…
