Category: History and Historiography

The Man The CIA Wants You To Forget

Former LAPD Narcotics Detective and whistleblower Michael Ruppert spent years speaking out against the CIA for allegedly running drugs throughout the USA. The Free Thought Project 11 hours ago (The Pulse) Michael C. Ruppert was an ex-LAPD Narcotics Detective and whistleblower who came out against the CIA in the […]

The Man Who Condemned the Rosenbergs

Sponsored by Bodleian Library Publishing Linda Greenhouse Not How He Wanted to Be Remembered Two decades passed before the ghosts of the Rosenbergs came back to haunt Irving Kaufman, the judge who sentenced them to death. Ingrid D. Rowland The Divine Guido A new exhibition at the Prado dispels […]

Facts That Won’t Go Away

What became of Sacagawea after the expedition that made her famous? A scholarly consensus long held that that she died young, of “putrid fever,” in 1812—“a short life with a sad ending,” as Thomas Powers puts it in the Review’s June 8, 2023 issue. In contrast, Powers writes, […]

Who Are the Taliban Now?

Our June 22 issue—the University Press Issue—is online now, with Fara Dabhoiwala on the ingenious index, Ingrid D. Rowland on Guido Reni’s questing soul, Rachel Donadio on Nathalie Sarraute’s sensual eviscerations, Steve Coll on the Taliban’s second emirate, Jessica Riskin on the poisoning of Jane Stanford, Ruth Franklin […]

JFK Assassination Cover-Up Exposed

JFK Assassination Cover-Up Exposed A Dallas maintenance worker, Orville Nix, recorded a home movie of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Read More… Texas Father of Six Fatally Shot at Daughter’s Graduation Party A father of six was fatally shot while attending his daughter’s high school graduation […]

The Much-Coveted World War II

MONDAY, MAY 29, 2023 War breeds atrocities. From the earliest conflicts of recorded history to the global struggles of modern times inhumanities, lust and pillage have been the inevitable by-products of man’s resort to force and arms. Unfortunately, such despicable acts have a dangerous tendency to call forth […]

The Two Constitutions

Sponsored by MUBI David W. Blight The Two Constitutions James Oakes’s deeply researched book argues that two very different readings of the 1787 charter put the United States on a course of all but inevitable conflict. Yasmine El Rashidi A Life of Sheer Will The Lebanese writer and painter […]

Henry Kissinger’s Killing Fields

FEATURED STORY Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings Nick Turse Exclusive witness interviews and archival documents detail killings of hundreds of Cambodian civilians. READ MORE → RELATED Notorious 1973 Attack Killed Many More Than Previously Known Long-buried documents indicate that the true number […]

Getting Sacagawea Right

Sponsored by W. W. Norton & Company For the June 8 issue of the magazine, Thomas Powers reviews Our Story of Eagle Woman: Sacagawea: They Got It Wrong, a 2021 book that argues that, contrary to the story told in standard biographies, Sacagawea’s parents were from the Hidatsa and […]

The Creation of Nigeria

Sponsored by Reaktion Books Vivian Gornick Surviving by Accident With neither cynicism nor sentimentality, Marina Jarre makes us feel the hard, dull ache of the spiritual aloneness that countless lives endure, especially in the shadow of a dramatic world war. Howard W. French The Creation of Nigeria Britain’s consolidation […]

The Dutch Roots of Capitalism

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2023 Most Americans think that “inflation” means generally rising prices, but Balfour correctly states that what is actually being inflated is the supply of money. – George Leef, “A Book to Help Young Americans Understand Economics: Economics in Action” [2023] HORNBERGER’S BLOG May 19, 2023 […]

The Hitler of Legend

By Paul Gottfried Adolf Hitler’s iconic hair and paintbrush mustache. (Art by rudall30) In 1997, John Lukacs published The Hitler of History, a book that presents a provocative but also reasonable argument: Contrary to the standard view of historians, Hitler was not a conservative who embodied the values […]

Confronting the JFK Assassination

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2023 To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. – Theodore Roosevelt HORNBERGER’S BLOG May 17, […]

The Century of Wall Street

Digital Odyssey May 15, 2023 “Antony Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason his work tends to be either dismissed out of hand as ‘extreme’ or, more often, simply ignored.” ~ Richard Pipe, Survival Is Not Enough: Soviet Realities and […]

Life Under Communism in Eastern Europe

During World War II, Eastern Europe was caught between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Several Eastern European countries–Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria–aligned themselves with the Nazis. Nazi troops overran most of the rest of Eastern Europe in the first years of the war. (Troops of Fascist Italy took […]

Wages for Housewives

Sponsored by Duke University Press Larry Rohter The Inventor of Magical Realism It remains a mystery why Miguel Ángel Asturias’s brilliant novel Mr. President remains less well known in the English-speaking world than the many novels it inspired. Anna Shechtman Wages for Housewives The Real Housewives’ work is to produce drama, […]

Writing into Silence

June 16, 1948, was the beginning of the twelve-year conflict that would come to be called “the Malayan Emergency” by British colonial troops and “the Anti-British National Liberation War” by the predominantly ethnically Chinese Communist fighters seeking to overthrow them. Five thousand civilians died, and as much as […]

Victims of Capitalism Day

Kevin Carson | Support this author on Patreon | May 10th, 2020 At Reason Ilya Somin, in keeping with his annual practice since 2007, has chosen May 1 — May Day — as his date for  observing “Victims of Communism Day.” Somin cites the “authoritative” Black Book of Communism as his source for a death toll […]

Modernity: Yes or No?

Keith Preston says yes. Chase Madden says no. Chase Madden writes: I don’t agree with this view at all. The fact of the matter is we human beings are not “Autonomous Individuals”. We are from our very conception in our mothers womb dependent on the will of others […]

Uncomfortable History

Grappling with Western misdeeds does not require us turn indigenous tribes into pious exemplars of moral instruction. Christopher J. Ferguson 27 Apr 2023 · A review of Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen, 592 pages, Liveright (September 2022) The Freudian concept known as “reaction formation” refers to a psychological […]