Category: History
Brazil: A Melting-pot Genetic Present and an Uncharted Deep Past
by Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: In 1494, the expansionary Iberian powers negotiated the Treaty…
The Incredible Story of the Fake Allied Military Unit that Fooled Hitler Ahead of the D-day Invasion of Normandy
By Taylor Downing at Air Mail: General Hans Cramer was a German officer of the…
South Africa’s Enduring Unfreedom
An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, 30 years after apartheid’s…
Thirty Years of Talking About Pablo Escobar
Juan Gabriel Vásquez in El Pais: Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug trafficker in history,…
How the World Made the West
Steven Poole at The Guardian: “Western civilisation” would not exist without its Islamic, African, Indian…
From Rags to Riches, or the Multifaceted Progress of Lady
By Anatoly Liberman at OUP Blog: Every English dictionary with even minimal information on word…
America Still Has Heroes
Joe Nocera at The Free Press: It was early afternoon, the Thursday before Memorial Day,…
When Margaret Thatcher Refused to Jump
Douglas Murray at The Free Press: Welcome to Douglas Murray’s column, Things Worth Remembering, in…
A Brief History of Failed Attempts at Human Flight
Joe Fassler at Lit Hub: Years ago, for reasons I still don’t fully understand, I…
The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
Lucy Moore at Literary Review: After they were released from prison in Paris in the…
A United States of Europe
Fernanda Gallo at Aeon: By 1941, as most European states were under the yoke of…
