History

Reading Time: 7 minutes Last week the Nobel Prize Committee began announcing its 2021 recipients. The highly esteemed Nobel Prize is named after Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century Swedish chemist, and inventor who developed the invention of dynamite. According to legend, Nobel read a premature publication of his own obituary, which described his life as a weapons developer. Discouraged by…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday Abdul Qadeer Khan (AQ Khan) died in Pakistan after being hospitalized for COVID19. Khan is the man responsible for facilitating turning Pakistan into a nuclear power and just as significant, providing countries like North Korea, Libya, and Iran with the science and technology they needed for their own nuclear programs. Most believe North Korea…

Reading Time: < 1 minute This bonus episode in our series Never Again…Again – The Ongoing History of Genocide discusses some of our top recommended books on the history of genocide for those who want to dive deeper into the topics covered in the podcast series. Links to the books discussed in this episode can be found below. All of…

Reading Time: 6 minutes The 1994 genocide in Rwanda is a stain on world history and international relations. At a time when the western world celebrated the collapse of communism and looked forward to the dawn of a new age of prosperity and international cooperation, Hutu Rwandans slaughtered nearly 1 million of their fellow countrymen. Civilians primarily carried out…

Reading Time: 6 minutes The Silent Genocide is the name given to the Guatemalan genocide of an estimated 200,000 Mayan people in Guatemala. In addition to the 200,000 deaths, another 200,000 became refugees when they fled Guatemala for Mexico to escape the violence. Another million Mayan people became internally displaced. Like many of history’s genocides that we have looked…

Reading Time: 6 minutes This post tells the story of the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide. Our readers at the End of History are among the smartest in the world, and given the opportunity, I bet they could find Pakistan and India on a world map. But only the most astute followers of history and current events know that prior to…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The United States will mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on Saturday. Most of us simply call it 9/11, and everyone knows what we are talking about when we say 9/11. In prior podcast episodes, I described defining generational moments as a historical event where everyone alive at that time…

Reading Time: 6 minutes Our list and summary of genocides and mass murders since 1900 – constantly being updated. Throughout our research for the podcast series Never Again, Again – The Ongoing History of Genocide we encountered difficulty finding a comprehensive list of genocides. Part of the problem is that the word genocide is a highly contested word filled…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Afghanistan has long been the graveyard of empires. Throughout history, it seems every great empire and conqueror was enticed to the lands of Afghanistan. One of my favorite movies that most people have never heard of is The Man Who Would Be King. It is based on a Rudyard Kipling story of two British adventurers…