After the war, the Vatican’s propaganda office mounted a coordinated effort to portray Pius XII as a hero, a moral leader who spoke out against anti-Semitism and pleaded with the warring countries to protect innocent civilians, including minorities. The Vatican claimed, however, that Pope Pius XII...
In talks leading up to COP (Council of Parties) 27, the international climate summit held at Sharm al Sheik in Egypt in late November, John Kerry, President Biden’s envoy, was adamant that the U.S. did not feel “guilty” about its environmental record and would not agree to contribute to a “loss and damage” fund for developing countries.
While Russian President Vladimir Putin keeps calling the Ukrainian leadership “Nazis,” it is his own flawed military strategy that closely matches that of Hitler in the disastrous invasion of Russia in 1941.
In the first years of the 20th century, Black jazz musicians, could be arrested by white police for almost any reason, found “patrons” of a different sort in
Stephen Aron, President and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, shares his provocative new history of the American frontier.
There’s then the danger of falling into the trap of technological determinism . . ."
In February 1968, with the publication of the landmark Kerner Commission Report, white America had a chance to acknowledge the fact of four centuries of systemic racism. It turned away . . .
An intense struggle has been waged between Democratic officials in San Antonio and the state’s hard-right conservative leadership who s insist on maintaining the traditional myth surrounding Alamo, a story that contemporary historians call “the Heroic Anglo Narrative.”
Could World War I have been ended in December 1916 with a negotiated peace, thus sparing millions of lives on both sides?
He was dubbed the “velvet hammer,” the “handler,” and the “ultimate fixer” by the national news media. Canadian trade negotiators, disconcerted by his hardline tactics and frequent use of profanity, had a less flattering nickname: “Texas crude.” READ More
