All history is presentism
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…
The Ottomans by Marc David Baer review – when east met west
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,…
Meet the Censored: Hitler
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…
Every Roman Emperor: A Video Timeline Moving from Augustus to the Byzantine Empire’s Last Ruler, Constantine XI
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…
The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse
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…
So What if the Ottomans Shaped the Modern World?
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,…
How Versailles Still Haunts the World
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…
Pearl Harbor: An Orchestrated Event?
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…