Click Here to Read: 50 Years After My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, Revisiting the Slaughter the US Military Tried to Hide By Amy Goodman on the Democracy Now! website on March 16, 2018.
Photo by Ronald L. Haeberle. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Category: History
Historian Tuesday: Thucydides
Click Here to Read: Thucydides on Wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: History: The Trump team is obsessing over Thucydides, the ancient historian who wrote a seminal tract on war By Michael Crowley on the Politico website on June 21, 2017/
Click Here to Read: The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War? In 12 of 16 past cases in which a rising power has confronted a ruling power, the result has been bloodshed by Graham Allison on September 24, 2015.
Click Here to Read: The Risks and Rewards of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War by S.M. Jaffe on the War on the Rocks website on July 6, 2017
Click Here to Read: Thucydides and the Tragedy of Athens: A Parable for America by John H. Maurer on the Foreign Policy Research website on June 26, 2017.
This is the plaster cast bust currently in exposition of Zurab Tsereteli’s gallery in Moscow (part of Russian Academy of Arts), formerly from the collection of castings of Pushkin museum made in early 1900-1910s.
Original bust is a Roman copy (c. 100 CE) of an early 4th Century BCE Greek original, and is located in Holkham Hall in Norfolk, UK. 2008 Photo: shakko
The Many Lives of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
John Forrester obituary
How True is “The Crown” on the Suez Cover-Up?
Click Here to Read: How True is “The Crown” on the Suez Cover-Up?: In the hit show, Queen Elizabeth II puts the British prime minister in check for his secret plan to attack Egypt. In real life, he was checkmated by David Ben-Gurion by Martin Kremer on the Mosaic website on March 1 2018.
A Westland Whirlwind helicopter taking off from the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Albion (R07) to stand by for emergency rescue operations as the ship turns into the wind to fly off her aircraft on a strike. Visible on deck are De Havilland Sea Venoms of 809 Naval Air Squadron, and Hawker Sea Hawks from 800 and 802 NAS. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
7,000-Year-Old Native American Burial Site Found Underwater
Click Here to Read and View: 7,000-Year-Old Native American Burial Site Found Underwater: In an unprecedented discovery, archaeologists identify a site where prehistoric people once buried their dead—now submerged beneath the waves By Megan Gannon in the National Geographic Magazine on February 28, 2018.