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In an informal survey of 109 professional historians conducted over a three-week period through the History News Network, 98.2 percent assessed the presidency of Mr. Bush was a failure while 1.8 perce
...nd diplomatic expertise.
You can read more of his book review on his blog the Spinning Clio: Where History and Politics Meet. ...
...g of the millennium and all the local East European wars in between.
I guess sometimes the lesson of history is so clear that it can't be forgotten.
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If you love reading and researching the history of the civil war I thought you would find this post interesting.
I met many people and discussed many of the facts of the civil war on many occasions
... Wall Street Journal and if not for Dan Ford post I would probably have missed it.
Talking about war history I feel that the article touches upon a very important point not just economically but one...
...at one of the purposes is to increase the tension and have the Iranian people relaying on him more but history tell us that Arab leader lie, they lie a lot, they lie even if bragging in military abili...
...locked and a really good blog from one soldier in Iraq is off limit for all the people that followed his story. ...
...the ancient buried cities in Iraq that was reported years ago is still very much active problem.
The History Blog is covering the issue for sometime now but now a recent delegation of archaeologists...
I've read a very disturbing post on History Unfolding about the Israeli historian Morris that characterized the dangers that Iran poses to Israel with regard to its effort to develop nucle
Bicentennial can really be a big deal especially if they are for remembering important things or persons. Lincoln's bicentennial certainly falls under this category and on A Lincoln Blog I've read abo
...e are doing before ruining it for some fancy building that would lose the feeling of the place and its history.
If you want to sign the petition to let the drag lines stay and free the site from the...
... during the war in Israel - for the first time I.D.F has gained control over Jerusalem and the rest is history.
The transcript of the conversation so many Jews hold dear to their heart is brought in...
This is the weirdest representation of war history that I've seen but I liked the idea, not the food element so much as freedom the video creatures took in expressing the personal interpretation of
Thinking back on war history we can see that the leaders that gained the largest amount of support from their people were the ones that put things as they were and pointed out the important things.
...talking about the fundamentalists Islamic terrorism in particular.
It is just that if we survey the history of war not just in regards to the way that this or that battle was conducted but take a w...
Once you find out who financed Germany in their mission to take over the World it will answer the question, "Why did hitler kill the Jews?". I can recall the movie but remember that movie with Dezel W
... pitting Thomas DiLorenzo against George Prokopowicz on the status of President Lincoln in the eyes of history.
Very compelling arguments on both sides, and I was wondering if anyone who has readit ...
I'm looking for any one who knows where I may find a history of the 15th Bomb. Sqaurdron. I've been able to locate information about them when they were in England in 1942. I know they were transfered
...lity only in the thirties. By that time's German laws was it OK to grant it to him given that he had a history as a convicted criminal? Why wasn't Hitler as a foreigner expelled from Germany in the tw...
...s that the CSA won the war, and this is a modern documentary from that world describing its subsequent history. Sounds interesting, and from what I've read, a little incendiary. And a distribution com...
Just got finished watching an episode of 'The World At War' on the History Channel this evening, and the segment was on the desert battle between the Desert Army (later the British 8th Army) and the G
Can anyone help verify this story? My uncle, born of Greek parents, was attending radio operators school at USC, Davis in 1942. On a bullitin board was a notice that a special Greek/American unit was
...wastika. I haven't been able to find any reference on this type of flag ( where it may have been used, history, etc )
2) Also background on a Japanese silk flag that has writing all around the red c...
...tation to speculation, and I will forgive the Moderator if he decides not to include this:
Given the history of the United State up through the Missouri Compromise, suggest plausible ways in which t...
when i took history 101 (western civilzation from 1700~present), we spent some time on ww2. according to the text, Fascism in Italy was defined was an Authoritarian Regime with some limitations (royal
...USN?) seems to have only caught on in 1943. Also what did the Japanese do? I think I have most of the AA story, but I have missed how the 282 radar/director worked with the pom-poms. 4-inch had mechan...
... brutal and if it wasn't for his raid on harrpers ferry he would only be footnote in the bleeding kansas story .
was he justified ? he was as justified as any others in that war along the border , s...
...l records and copies of the ships deck logs on microfilm. I would like to put together a comprehensive history of the ship to pass down to my children and grand-children, and for anyone else who has a...
...f World War Two' Greenhill Books, London, 1997.
The last entry in the Railway Artillery chapter is the story of the 80cm Kanon in Eisenbahnlafette 'Gustav Gerat'. The very same giant gun that crushe...
...gton elite trying to get there way and to heck with what the people think. This period in our Countrys history(pre-PH) seems to have set the pattern when it comes to Washington getting us into things ...
...ther officers filed false reports about achievements.
The news media was direct to not report the full story to the Japanese people.
In reading about the behavior of the high military command at t...
...an losses were stated as 27,500 dead and 1,600 captured. This seemed strange to me as common sense and history (the Gulf War) would suggest that conscript soldiers who are cold, starving, isolated, an...
...rop-Molotov take place on August 23rd, 1.939. Did Stalin abandoned their pupils in Spain?.
Would the history changed if the Spanish Republic staid on fighting until the star of the II-WW?....
...orum, but who are no longer with us.
That said, the following is Paul's post, now not only Civil War history, but also Civil War newsgroup history. I'd love to hear what the present generation of po...
Could be wrong, but I don't recall anyone on this list, except Caldwell, claiming there was no racism in the North.
There's a difference between racism and slavery, you know.
n canfield
...hey believe or have evidence that Roosevelt knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor before it started. The story begins on September 1, 1939, when the war started, Roosevelt was asked by a reporter whet...
...ight did not triumph, then Might did. So be it. Why can't the Neo-Confederates simply accept a fact of history and go on from there?
Bob Kolker...
Thanks to Gary Leopold and John Rainbird Gentry for the facts, figures, and references. When Sen. Shumer made his remark, the estimated death toll for 9/11 was over 6000 so he was apparently correct a
I am writing a paper for my history class and was trying to compare Grant's prewar experiences with those of other Union commanders. Grant was unsuccessful in civilian life compare to McClellan and it
...he mentions that after the liberation, the cinema showed a movie called 'The first victory'; it told the story of El-Alamein.
I can not find more information about this movie, which is absent from t...
...e same platoon in the Irish Guards!'
What thriller writer would _dare_ put such a coincidence in a spy story?
That an agent was dropped at random into Britain, and the first rural constable he met...
...ions with nazi Germany during the period 1939- 1944 as well as the post war period. ( but that's another story) 1. Why didn't the German Kreigsmarine suggest to the German foreign office that Argentin...
In the last days i heard the story of the German MG-gunner at Omaha Beach, who fired several hours during D-day at the landed soldiers, killing hundreds - perhaps thousends of them.
1. Question: Why
...the past and then, teach what we have learned to those who are not as |fortunate as we are but how can history be taught without a reality. |Sure, we visited the Holocost center but what does that tea...
This little quote comes from Clifford Dowdey:
'History talks about how great General Grant was. I tell you he was not better than his predecessors. He had numbers, industrial might, and the financia
Am reading Martin Gilbert's one volume history. page 239 states that Churchill announced on Sept. 30, 1941, that the British tank production of that week was to be sent to Russia. My question: Were th
...e. Hitler, as an Austrian boy, was raised as a Roman Catholic. (It's amazing: the greatest murderer of History as a Roman Catholic) As a matter of fact he joined a group of teenagers in a beneditine c...
...would have to be 80,000 or so.
Not to cast aspersions on Carter's truthfulness, but his knowledge of history is seriously deficient, at best....
I'm a newbie to WWII history but in the past year or so have become increasingly more and more interested in learning all I can. Unfortunately, I didn't appreciate the subject in high school and didn'
Go to the library and take a look at the Army's official history of the subject, 'Employment of Negro Troops' by U. L. Lee. Your 'impression' that they were 'shielded to some degree from combat' is an
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