Origins of the Armenian Genocide trace back to the early 1900s
GERRY CHIDIAC: The deep-rooted history behind the Artsakh-Karabakh conflict and the Armenian Genocide
Tag: History
Prigozhin’s march on Moscow: The perils of ignoring the lessons of the past
SIMON BENNETT: A striking parallel can be drawn between the Prigozhin rebellion and Caesar’s historic crossing of the Rubicon
John F. Kennedy was an Irish-American who transcended his roots
PAT MURPHY: In June 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was welcomed to Ireland as ‘the first citizen of the great republic of the west’
If Britain had stood aside in 1914
PAT MURPHY: What if Germany had won the First World War? How would the world look today?
Who was to blame for the First World War?
PAT MURPHY: Unravelling the blame game: Exploring the complex factors behind the First World War
Zelenskyy and Ukraine join elite company with 2023 Charlemagne Prize
PAT MURPHY in BOOKS: But who was Charlemagne and why is a prize named after him?
Erase our history, erase ourselves
JACK MINTZ: The Trudeau government is out to erase Canadian history
Marie Antoinette’s formidable mother a powerful and controversial ruler
PAT MURPHY: Austrian ruler Maria Theresa was one tough cookie
Westminster Abbey has been hosting coronations since 1066
PAT MURPHY: The religious ceremony is a relic from a distant time, when the monarch was truly regarded as God’s anointed
Caesar and Alexander – heroes, villains, or both?
PAT MURPHY in BOOKS: Projecting modern values back over two thousand years is the tricky bit
Leadership amid the flames of the Great Fire of London
PAT MUPHY: Charles II’s leadership during the Great Fire of London was the kind of performance that gives kings a good name
When Buffalo Bill took London by storm
PAT MURPHY: Buffalo Bill was an interesting blend of the authentic and the fictional. Most of all, he was a gifted showman
The death of King Richard the Lionheart
PAT MURPHY: England’s most famous medieval king was, like his parents, more French than English
The Canadian who helped tame America’s Wild West
PAT MURPHY: Born in Quebec, Bat Masterson set out to find adventure on America’s frontier – and he found plenty
England’s warrior queen
PAT MURPHY: Boudica’s moment of fame came as the leader of a revolt against the Romans in the years 60-61 when she was queen of the Iceni
Jimmy Carter was an accidental president
PAT MURPHY: Jimmy Carter’s nobility of purpose came across as preachy self-righteousness, which isn’t a great way to manage the compromises
Winston Churchill and the villainous ‘Guilty Men’
PAT MURPHY in BOOKS: An influential book from 1940 laid the guilt of appeasing Nazi Germany at the feet of 15 public figures
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