History
Rogues & Upstarts
Over 160,000 poor, poor convicts were stuffed into the hulls of tall ships and transported from the Mother Land to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
Zinn And The Art Of History Maintenance
Though not quite yet a household name, as historians and public intellectuals go, Howard Zinn has in the last few years become increasingly present in the public eye (whatever that is).
Pogue Mahone Means Kiss My Arse
We won’t go too much into who Shane MacGowan is here because, for God’s sake, you should know.
Prancehall
I was walking down the street the other day when I had an epiphany. I turned to my reflection in a nearby shop window and said, "Hey, you know what? There's more to the world than just UrBaN Mu$iC in that Do It! column."
The Diseases Of Our Leaders
Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. That's what someone said.
Literary
We recently got our hands on a few “history” books a friend of ours brought back from Pyongyang.
History On Repeat Forever And Ever
Ophelia Field is a young and articulate graduate of Christ Church College, Oxford and the London School of Economics. She knows a lot more than you about the early 18th Century.
Thomas Cahill Is Saving Civilization
Over the course of books such as How the Irish Saved Civilization, Sailing the Wine-Dark Seas, and Mysteries of the Middle Ages, historian Thomas Cahill has done more for making ancient history readable and entertaining than all the cobweb-covered...
Napoleon Bonaparte
The worst thing about history is the fact that most of the really cool stuff happened centuries ago so anyone who can tell you anything remotely vivid about it has been dead for ages.
Cogitations Upon The Nature Of History
They say that history is written by the winners. One day the feral scum of Britain will win and roam the country free. My problem is that they can't read or write.
Vice Presents The People's Lists
Excerpted from The People’s Almanac Presents the 20th Century: History With the Boring Parts Left Out, by David Wallechinsky.