The Civil Wargasm

The Civil WargasmThe reading of Confederates in the Attic this week started with a visit with Shelby Foote in his home......

Hirsch's "Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg" at WHS

The next meeting of the Washington History Seminar will be devoted to Francine Hirsch, University of Wisconsin-Madison,......

Gerstle & Isaac, eds., "States of Exception in American History"

New from the University of Chicago Press: States of Exception in American History, edited by Gary Gerstle (University of......

Losano on War Prohibitions in Postwar Constitutions of Japan, Italy and Germany

The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History announces a new publication, Three constitutions against war: Japan,......

Benvenisti & Lustig, "Monopolizing War: Codifying the Laws of War to Reassert Governmental Authority, 1856–1874"

The February 2020 issue of the European Journal of International Law includes an article that may be of interest to readers:......

History of War: Battle of Brunanburh

The battle of Brunanburh was fought by the West Saxon king Æthelstan and his brother Edmund against a coalition of ......

American Civil War (1861-65)

The Civil War was rooted in the civil societies of Northern and Southern states, based in uneven national modernization.......

The Battle of Didgori in 1121

The first Christian colonies appeared as far back as the 1st century AD and like the representatives of other religions......

The Polish Exodus To Iran in World War 2

In light of the horrific deaths of refugees & migrants crossing into Europe and the alarming xenophobic sentiments......

Does History Repeat Itself?

Not exactly.First of all, let's get the fine print out of the way; every moment in time itself is unique and forever lost.......

Yang Kyoungjong - A Conscript's Story

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