Second Decade history podcast returns! New episode: “New England’s Cold Friday.”
Second Decade returns from hiatus with a chilling tale from New England in the winter of 1810, which made a pretty indelible mark in popular consciousness.
Background to war? Mad Sociologist on U.S.-North Korea conflict. [video]
https://youtu.be/Gmpp7QZWwpE The above video is by fellow academic blogger The Mad Sociologist, who tries in this video to provide some background--both historical and political--to the [...]
The Myklebust Ship – Norway’s Largest Viking Ship Being Rebuilt
It's been a while since I've shared anything from ThorNews, but this article caught my eye about the fascinating restoration of a 9th century Viking [...]
Escaping the Graveyard of Empires: it’s time to get out of Afghanistan.
On Monday night (August 21, 2017), President Donald Trump gave a major address on the continuing U.S. war in Afghanistan. The details are not so [...]
Fool’s Gold: why there’s no treasure in the Oak Island “Money Pit.” [Part IV] (UPDATED!)
It's illogical to believe there is treasure on Oak Island. Here's my summation.
Fool’s Gold: why there’s no treasure in the Oak Island “Money Pit.” [Part III]
Watch the video version of this article, here: https://youtu.be/BmD3o34SttA This article is third in a series on the mysterious “treasure pit” of Oak Island, Nova [...]
Fool’s Gold: why there’s no treasure in the Oak Island “Money Pit.” [Part II]
See the video version of this article, here: https://youtu.be/kFserAujfhU This is Part II of my series of articles on Oak Island, a small island in [...]
Sunn Classic Pictures: how Hollywood introduced America to fake history.
At the end of the 1970s--I was about seven years old--our family was one of the earliest in our area to get cable TV. Cable [...]
Hiroshima at the dinner table: the tragic pointlessness of the atom bomb debate.
Seventy-two years ago today, on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atom bomb used in combat on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, [...]
The little war at the center of recent history: the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Twenty-seven years ago today, on August 2, 1990, military units of Iraq's elite Republican Guard crossed the border between that country and its southern neighbor, [...]