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By A Bookworm's World on May 24, 2013 in: history
Subtitled: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II Mitchell Zuckoff's name might already be familiar to you - he's also the author of a previous best seller - Lost in Shangri-La. Zuckoff again revisits Worl...
By Rhymes With Right on May 24, 2013 in: History
Jonah Goldberg traced the liberal roots of fascism -- and the fascist roots of a number of liberal policies. The Left was outraged -- but here is another example of what he was talking about when he wrote of liberal admiration for fascist regimes in...
By WesternFront America on May 23, 2013 in: Society, featured, history
When was the last time you visited Stone Mountain Park with the world famous carving of legendary Americans: Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson or beautiful Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia where Jefferson Davis is buried? T...
By Think Progress on May 23, 2013 in: History, War, Movies, Books
The trailer for the upcoming Civil War drama Copperhead conveniently doesn’t mention that the movement its titular characters were affiliated with wanted the Union to make a peace with the Confederacy that would allow for the preservation of sl...
By Boing Boing on May 22, 2013 in: History, war, Gadgets, Games, canada
Canadian artist Howie Tsui redesigned a pinball machine to turn it into a crude simulation of a musket-ball rattling around a soldier's guts for a War of 1812-themed exhibition currently running at the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre at Queens Universi...
By kiwi-travel-writer on May 20, 2013 in: Food, History, travel
Some individuals are just not people you want to travel with, well, not for long anyway as they seem to just cruise, explore and moan. I met some of them on a river cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest: fortunately they were not part of the small I was...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on May 17, 2013 in: Britain, history, Australia
Leonard Joel Auctioneers in Melbourne provided this historical evidence, based on Royal Marines Historical Society records (see reference). The auction is on 19th May 2013.Charles A.F.N. Menzies (1783-1866) was born in Perthshire in Scotlan...