Tough Terms: The Treaty of Versailles
World War I was unlike anything that the world had ever seen before. The chaos, tragedy and terror of mechanized...
Judging Evil in the Trial of Rudolph Kastner
Image Source: SciencePole.com When Hannah Arendt came to Jerusalem in 1961 to attend the Eichmann trial she expected to find...
Heraclius and the Early Islamic Conquests: An Analysis of Byzantine Military Failure at the Battle of Yarmuk in AD 636
It is one of the great ironies of history that Emperor Heraclius, who rescued the Byzantine Empire from potential collapse...
The Crimean Khanate and the Great Power Struggle for the Ukraine in the 17th Century
The recent annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Federation should remind us of the competing and complicated claims of...
Nazis & America: The USA’s Fascist Past
World War II has a nostalgia to it for Americans (and I’m allowed to say this, as I’m an American)...
