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Category Archives: History
Robert E. Lee
Back in 2004, I visited Arlington House in Washington D.C. with my brother. Lee’s estate is on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery, the former having been expropriated from Lee by victorious Union pols. There is a bookshop on the … Continue reading
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How Did English Get To Be The International Language Of Science?
From Popular Science: More than 98 percent of all scientific articles published today are in English, but that hasn’t always been the case. “There used to be one language of science in Europe, and it was Latin,” says Michael Gordin, a … Continue reading
Indentured Servants
A factoid for one’s contextualization of America’s past ‘pure evil’ institution of slavery: “Of the Europeans brought to America no fewer than 75% were indentured servants or convicts.” [Power and Plenty, Trade war and the world economy in the Second … Continue reading
A Brief History of American Race Relations
The tireless Jared Taylor’s latest speech is on “A Brief History of American Race Relations“.
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Camus’ Algerian Legacy
From an article on Algeria’s cultural snubbing of Albert Camus’ Algerian legacy is this nice paragraph about the arc of Camus’ oevre: “There is a Camus for every stage of life,” says Kaplan, trying to explain Camus’ staying power and … Continue reading
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Linz
From “What Occurred at Linz: A Memoir of Forgetting“, by Robert Hahn, is this telling description of Linz today, the city that Hitler was born in: Heading away from the square, I turn left at Graben, meaning “moat”—I have passed … Continue reading
The European Atrocity You Never Heard About
In The Chonicle of Higher Education, R.M. Douglas, associate professor of history at Colgate University, writes on “The European Atrocity You Never Heard About“, wherein: In the largest episode of forced migration in history, millions of German-speaking civilians were sent … Continue reading
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President George Wallace
In my previous post, David Boaz’s mention of George Wallace‘s 1968 third-party, presidential run (on behalf of the American Independent Party) got me thinking… Sigh… What might have been. His symbolic ‘Stand in the Schoolhouse Door‘ at the the University … Continue reading
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American Homicide
I just watched Ohio State history professor Randolph Roth discuss his book American Homicide on C-Span’s “Book Notes”. The thrust of Roth’s thesis: When trust in government is relatively high, the homicide rate is relatively low; when trust in government … Continue reading
The Final Years
A new book on JFK further solidifies the historical fact that this guy was not a saint, but a brazen careerist engaged in increasingly wreckless, serial infidelities coupled with amphetamine-fueled drug abuse.
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