history – Page 2

Wealth Inequality Does Not Create Poverty

It’s a fascinating notion, and one of the great fallacies of our time, that wealthy people create poverty, if nothing

01 Jan

Historian Dr. Hannah Barker calls it “generational chauvinism”. Essentially, it is the notion that what we see as a moral

30 Jul

Historians like to point to the 20th century as the age of authoritarianism, characterized by the rise of Fascism as well as

22 Jun

I’ve said for years, and taught in my classroom, that history echoes itself often; the problem is the generation of a

17 Jun

There has been the past few years a push to ban what has been termed cultural appropriation throughout Western society. Much

16 Mar

We don’t like to admit it, but humans are creatures of habit. Essentially, that’s what the study of history is: Studying

17 Feb

I find myself reading Orwell quite a bit. Not so much because of his political stances, although I find his arguments on

17 Jan

Today, August 6th, is the anniversary of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Over the decades since this

06 Aug

I’m not sure I’ve ever felt this kind of despair before for the nation I live in. Every time I’d see the American flag

06 Aug

I’m rather bemused by the pundits and politicians who are exercising their supposed moral high ground as they chastise Jeff

27 Jul