Tag: history

“People don’t know how to have a dialogue any more.” My hope is that the case of 19th-century climatology will remind us what a genuine dialogue looks like.

Or five lessons in the history of American defeat.

There is a lot for us to do, and unless we have public space, we can’t do the work of building a different kind of society and a different kind of world.

Good and evil may be meaningful terms of analysis for theologians. They are useless to historians.

Donald Trump thinks his intuition is better than knowledge of the past. That’s dangerous for him and all the rest of us.

Since the Islamic State rose out of the ashes of al Qaeda in Iraq, oil and other resource smuggling are just a few things funding this endeavor. Is this how the criminal gang now controls major cities throughout the Middle East?

“Humanity is never stationary." And it's only those who accept the very real possibility of dystopia that are the likely ones to carry out the self-sacrifice necessary for revolt.

Is the Pentagon's latest PR initiative to rewrite and distort the history of the Vietnam War? The Veterans for Peace campaign is calling out the Pentagon and pressuring them to correct the historical falsehoods. We need to keep the Pentagon honest.

Global capitalism erases the world's stories and histories. It seeks to shut out our voices, hopes and dreams by replacing the actual and the real with fake and false. Is its ultimate goal to create a vast historical amnesia?

The Battle of the Alamo rages on as the lone state senator, Donna Campbell, is re-defending the Alamo from the invading forces of the United Nations. So what spurred her to rush to the barricades of the Alamo?