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Contours Of Tyranny Henry VIII Henry VIII has been one of the most studied of English monarchs; a man who was indeed larger tha...

The Empress Wu Chief Advisor and Co-Ruler Empress Wu Zetian In a previous posting I discussed the ascension of the Empress W...

Knowing Better Gulag Camp In 1956 Khrushchev gave his secret speech outlining and denouncing the crimes of Joseph Stalin and the St...

Another One Bites the Dust Thoughts on the fall of Gaddafi Gaddafi in better days One of the common historical tropes of the la...

Moral Cretinism Part III Longing for Big Brother  Maurice Merleau-Ponty In two previous postings I looked at two other examples of ...

The Rise of the Empress Wu Empress Wu Zetain The history of China is fascinating one and full of strange and wonderful events. One ...

Stephens’ “Cornerstone” Alexander Hamilton Stephens Alexander Hamilton Stephens, (1812-1883), Vice President of the Confederacy and all rou...

“Development”? One of the problems of the historiography of modern Europe is the “westernization” and “modernization” of Russia and why this...