Category: History

Tyr possessed a magnificent sword, forged by the same dwarves who made Odin's spear. It is said to be very high and he used to share it with others. This…

Earlier this year, I wrote a piece in defense of presentism, discovering just before I posted, that the same title had been used (also this year) by David Armitage, Professor…

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/22/the-ottomans-by-marc-david-baer-review-when-east-mixed-with-west This highly readable account encourages us to see the Ottoman empire as an inseparable part of the history of Europe He even called himself caesar … Sultan Mehmed II,…

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-hitler?r=17uk7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter Can history itself violate community standards? 100 years ago yesterday — on July 29, 1921 — Adolph Hitler was elected leader of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ Party, later…

Famed Roman orator and consul Cicero is celebrated as a staunch defender of the Republic, and of traditional Roman morality and civic virtues. He was also a shrewd opportunist who…

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict-future/616993/ A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news. By Graeme Wood Peter Turchin, one of the world’s…

https://www.unz.com/pescobar/so-what-if-the-ottomans-shaped-the-modern-world/ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Left) during an April 17, 2017, visit to the tomb of Yavuz Sultan Selim, a sultan of the former Ottoman Empire 1512-1520, in Istanbul,…

The Treaty of Versailles—a contract that changed the course of the century and beyond—has been all but forgotten in the public sphere and in popular discourse. As a result, few…

https://www.unz.com/proberts/pearl-harbor-an-orchestrated-event/ In November, 1944, US Secretary of War, Henry Stimson snapped to the US Secretary of the Treasury that he was worn out “from working the last two weeks on…