History of the Taliban
When the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001, a narrative was quickly developed and sold to a generation that the Taliban were among the most...
The Great Partition 1947
Seventy-four years ago this week, India and Pakistan each declared their independence and partitioned the subcontinent into the newly defined nations of India and...
Pol Pot and the Cambodian Genocide
In 1975 a communist group known as the Khmer Rouge took control of the small nation of Cambodia. Under the leadership of Pol Pot,...
Holodomor – Ukraine’s Genocide by Starvation
The word Holodomor translates to death by hunger or killing by starvation. It is the name given to the genocide carried out by Stalin...
Mass Killings Under Mao – One of History’s Most Evil Men
In our recent podcast episode Evil Men, we examined the two worst killers of the 20th century. Many listeners were surprised that Hitler was...
The Great Terror
This post looks at the Great Terror, sometimes called the Great Purge, that Joseph Stalin unleashed upon the Soviet Union beginning in 1936. Learn...
Biafra Genocide – A Forgotten History
Between 1967 and 1970, an estimated 2 million Igbo Nigerians were killed by the Nigerian military after seceding to form the Republic of Biafra....
History of Haiti
This article explores the history of Haiti that brought us to the present status.
The assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse this week is only...
Barry Goldwater – The New Conservative
When Barry Goldwater is recalled to today's popular imagination, he is remembered as an extremist, a danger, and a war hawk. In his 1964...
Henry Clay – The Great Compromiser
Thirty years before Abraham Lincoln was elected President, a Congressman named Henry Clay was doing everything he could to address the American states' growing...