On 18 August 1838, 31 Marines were attached to the first U.S. exploring expedition, which sailed from Hampton Roads, Virginia, under command of Navy Lieutenant…
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Introduction to the Fifth Edition The Wall Street collapse of September–October 1929 and the Great Depression which followed it were among the most important events…
The era of WWII was a time of great wonder and mystery. One of those mystery’s was The Vril Society. The society had the belief…
By Dan McCall I didn’t realize Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s recently deceased father Joeseph Buttigieg was the Antonio Gramsci scholar/cheerleader at my grandfather’s school, Notre Dame.…
The continent Zealandia and its weird geology has been known since the 1970s But it’s only recently that scientists have figured out that the…
Zachary Leeman is a US-based journalist and author of the novel Nigh. Rewriting or removing bits of history that don’t align with modern PC standards is…
The Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump on both articles of impeachment on Feb. 5, ending the third impeachment trial in U.S. history. The…
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.” ―George Santayana From personal affairs to financial schemes…
On the holiday set aside in 2020 to honor Martin Luther King, the premier advocate of nonviolent Gandhian civil disobedience, thousands of gun owners gathered…
Perhaps nothing so animates the progressive Left today as the notion of an increasingly race-conscious society, segregated by ethnic identity and dismissive of the traditional…
Little of this made the news, because good news is no news Matt Ridley Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st…
Does the Senate have an obligation to conduct a trial of the president if the House impeaches him? With the increased prospects for an impeachment…
Kennedy had his own secret back channel with Moscow. It may have kept the superpowers from going to war. On a day in early December,…
The Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution recognizing the Ottoman Empire’s mass killing of Armenians a century ago as genocide, a move that aggravated already-tense relations between…
Now that we briefed ourselves in PART 9 of this series on the question of how deals get done amidst Bohemian Grovers (I am skipping a ton…
The collapse of the figurative and literal wall between East and West Germany was chief among the upheavals in those final weeks of 1989. Not…
Western music may have been changing the world in the 1950s, but if you happened to be in Russia you were out of luck. State…