Much has been written about the similarities between Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte. Hitler was an Austrian who was a failed artist who was abused as a boy. Through cunning and luck he rose from obscurity to become a heinous dictator of his adopted county, Germany. Napoleon was a Corsican who had once tried toContinue reading “Hitler, Napoleon, and Stalin: Outsider Despots”
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The Civil War in a Larger International Historical Context
This year much has been made of the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the US Civil War. Between the years 1861 and 1865 the United States of America changed, at the expense of over 600,000 lives or 2% of the population, from a loosely confederated grouping of agricultural states (eleven of which were agrarianContinue reading “The Civil War in a Larger International Historical Context”