Thirty years after the Tiananmen massacre, a book reveals the transcripts of the speeches of party leaders before the military intervention on the protesters: “We all agree”
The more sacrifices we make for an imaginary story, the stronger the story becomes, because we desperately want to give meaning to these sacrifices and to the suffering we have caused.
History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native villages lived in harmony with nature. But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there. America wasn’t exactly a New World…
The nineteenth-century human tragedy of Edgardo Mortara sheds a pitiless light on present-day religious attitudes to children.
Salvador Allende, then President of Chile, addressed the United Nations General Assembly on the eve of 4 December 1972, stating “Imperialism exists because underdevelopment exists, underdevelopment exists because imperialism exists.”
A un mese dalla morte si moltiplicano le iniziative per ricordare la figura di Emilio Lussu. Cogliere l’occasione per presentare un’importante testimonianza: quella di Camillo Bellieni, che di Lussu fu fraterno amico e compagno di lotte. Bellieni, che ha 82 anni è stato l’ideologo del movimento sardista ed ha scritto la storia della Brigata Sassari.
Il senatore Emilio Lussu è morto ieri a Roma, all’età di 85 anni, nella sua abitazione di piazza Adriana. La salma è stata cremata oggi pomeriggio, alla presenza della moglie Joyce e del figlio Giovanni. Per desiderio dell’estinto, la notizia del decesso è stata resa nota soltanto oggi.
At 9am on Sunday 4 November 1979, Mark Lijek and his colleagues sat in shocked horror as hundreds of Iranian protestors climbed the gate of the US Embassy in Tehran. The attack was the embodiment of months of increased tension between Iran and the US, culminating in what would be one of the modern era’s highest-profile hostage crises.
Vittorio Gorresio racconta il linciaggio di Donato Carretta, direttore del carcere di Regina Coeli, avvenuto a Roma il 18 settembre 1944
During the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, the CIA mounted a covert plan to free six American diplomats in Tehran. The cover story was that a production company was about to shoot a massive sci-fi movie called Argo in the Iranian desert. This is the incredible story of the film that never was…
PHNOM PENH—The spectacle of the Americans being evacuated from Cambodia—with helicopters dropping from the skies and stony-faced Marines armed to the teeth protecting the Embassy evacuees from nothing—is perhaps a fair epitaph for American policy in Indochina, or at least in Cambodia.
When a man has been slaughtering human beings for many months, and his eyes have grown accustomed to the sight of blood, his ears used to the scream of shell and shrapnel, and his soul calloused to all save his sense of duty, he moves automatically, and it is only when there comes a lull, and the black-winged horrors lift for a little, that with clear vision and delicate ear he sees and hears the world around him.
An Authentic Account of the Armenian Atrocities. Whatever else you may do, do not fail to read this account of the extermination of a Christian race by the Turks. Coming as it does from an authoritative source, we consider it one of the most striking and authentic documents of the war as well as a clear exposition of Germany’s guilt in the bloody affair.
Armenia is a word that has widely different connotation for different peoples. To us Americans it means a vague territory somewhere in Asia Minor; to the makers of modern maps it means nothing—there is no such place; to the Turks of a few years ago it was a forbidden name, smacking of treason and likely to bring up that bugaboo “nationalism,” than which Abdul Hamid II feared nothing more, unless it were “liberty”; but to nearly two millions of Russian, Persian, and Turkish subjects it is a word filled with emotion, one that sends the hand to the heart and calls up both pride and sorrow.
We dwell in a present-tense culture that somehow, significantly, decided to employ the telling expression “You’re history” as a choice reprobation or insult, and thus elected to speak forgotten volumes about itself.
di Manlio Brigaglia Pensare a dare una sistemazione alla struttura della proprietà fondiaria e un impulso deciso alla produttività agricola, come si riprometteva l’Editto delle
The evacuation of the BEF from northeastern France by civilian and military vessels during the fall of France in 1940 ensured that the British army would survive to fight another day.
Text of Christopher Hitchens’ introduction to his book “Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger”
Text of Christopher Hitchens’ preface to the first and second edition of his book “Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger”
One in three people in the Roman Republic were slaves. Denied freedom and rights, subject to mistreatment and abuse, they were suppressed by fear and force. But when united, armed, and inspired by a courageous leader, they proved as deadly a threat to Rome as any foreign foe.
The forced removal of thousands of proud and prosperous Cherokees from their 35,000 square miles in the Southern uplands to less desirable land beyond the Mississippi stands as one of the blackest episodes in American history.
Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.
Lo scrittore spagnolo Antonio Muñoz Molina era nel centro di New York l’11 settembre. Ecco la sua testimonianza sui primi istanti della tragedia
English translation of Oriana Fallaci’s “The Rage and the Pride”, the article that redefined Italy’s conception of the conflict between the Western world and the Islamic world
Articolo di Oriana Fallaci, apparso sul quotidiano Il Corriere della Sera il 29 settembre 2001 in seguito all’attacco alle Torri Gemelle dell’11 settembre 2001
June 11, 1989: with up to 7,000 already dead, the killing goes on, Jon Swain finds in Beijing
Reinhard Heydrich’s international ‘fame’ rose considerably as a result of his 1942 assassination which quickly became the subject of countless movies and books
11 luglio 1995: i soldati serbobosniaci uccidono settemila uomini e ragazzi musulmani. La storia di Fatima e Damir. E di una fotografia che sconvolse il mondo
Bonnie e Clyde, la coppia di amanti-rapinatori come simbolo di atteggiamenti d’istintiva ribellione a una società di tipo convenzionale
Durante la guerra di Spagna la Sardegna svolse un ruolo rilevante come base aerea e navale
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