History in real time
Posted 3 months ago
I absolutely love this: The Official White House photostream on Flickr.
Articles in the “history” category
What Holocaust?
Posted 3 months ago
CNN.com:
[A Holocaust survivor's son] told the story of a college freshman in Southern California who stood up during a presentation his mother was giving and said she’d never heard of the Holocaust.
What are they teaching in history classes nowadays?
The Destroyer
Posted last year, at the end of November
Robert Mugabe and the destruction of Zimbabwe.
History’s greatest journeys, from Magellan to Kerouac
Posted last year, mid-August
A compilation of some of the most famous jaunts of all time—both factual and fictional—that show us how far we’ve come, and where we might go next.
When is a failure considered a failure?
Posted 2 years ago, mid-November
Four days ago in Harare, the leading political party’s decision-making body rejected a land reform act that proposed a further purging of the few remaining white farmers in the country. Of course, many opposing Zanu-PF members, which include President Robert Mugabe, are outraged at such a travesty. Mugabe was especially shocked “because he had the [...]
