National Geographic has published University of California Los Angeles professor Kara Cooney’s book, which upon release contains historical errors about Rosa Parks and Kyle Rittenhouse.
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The Failed Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt: William Bullitt’s Warning
The postwar Soviet threat could have been lessened.
Recently in The American Spectator, I wrote a somewhat controversial article claiming that Franklin Roosevelt was a failure as president. One of the areas of failure, I argued, was FDR’s decision-making during the Second World War, which resulted in the replacement of the Nazi threat with an even greater Soviet threat. Some critics have retorted, What else could FDR have done? The postwar world was largely shaped by where the Anglo-American and Soviet armies ended up when the fighting stopped. But consider the case of William Bullitt’s warning to the president.
The Ungracious – and Their Demonization of the Past
The last two years have seen an unprecedented escalation in a decades-long war on the American past. But there are lots of logical flaws in attacking prior generations in U.S. history.
Critics assume their own judgmental generation is morally superior to those of the past. So, they use their own standards to condemn the mute dead who supposedly do not measure up to them.
Yet 21st-century critics rarely acknowledge their own present affluence and leisure owe much to history’s prior generations whose toil helped create their current comfort.
Oswald met KGB before JFK assassination, delayed records dump shows
Lee Harvey Oswald met with a KGB agent just two months before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, according to newly unsealed confidential documents stemming from JFK’s murder.
Federal government will soon hand over more residential school records: Miller
Canada’s Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister says the federal government will soon release a volume of the residential school records it’s been criticized for withholding to a national archives centre.
Hitler and Pearl Harbor — How News of Japan’s Surprise Attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet Rocked the Third Reich
“The Führer was surprised — he clearly had no foreknowledge of the date and time of the attack — and ecstatic.”
The Canadian ‘Falcon of Malta’ who died for Israel
‘Top Guns’: The little-known story of the decorated Canadian WWII pilot who died mysteriously in 1948 after joining the Israeli Air Force.
One of the most successful and decorated Canadian World War II “Top Guns,” George Frederic’ Buzz’ Beurling, was born in Montreal one hundred years ago on December 6, 1921. After the war, he joined the nascent Israeli Air Force to fight in the War of Independence and was killed mysteriously in 1948: It was a lamentable end to a dazzling dream.
Canada’s Great Depression
When there is talk of The Great Depression, the United States and its Dust Bowl often takes centre stage but there were many other places impacted by the depression, and few were affected as severely as Canada.
In this episode, I am going to look at how Canada was impacted by The Great Depression. This is a large topic, so I am going to be taking more of a broad view of how the country was impacted as a whole, with looks at the provinces as well.
Canada’s Wealthy Elites Long Had A Soft Spot For Fascism
The Canadian military’s efforts in the Second World War are often mythologized so as to portray opposition to fascism as a cross-class trait, shared by workers, bosses and politicians alike. The disturbing reality, however, is that well into the late 1930s, a significant section of Canada’s elite admired fascism in Italy and even in Germany.
UBC under pressure to cancel event with filmmaker who made “The Canadian Mass Graves Hoax” documentary
Lauren Southern’s movie claims that there’s no evidence of a Catholic Church cover-up.
(This story may be triggering for some readers. The Indian Residential School Survivors Society can be reached at 1-800-721-0066 and there’s a 24-hour crisis line at 1-866-925-4419.)
BC museum closes floor on Canadian history to “decolonize” exhibit
According to the museum’s acting CEO Daniel Muzyka, the exhibits on European settlers, the early logging and fishery industry will all disappear.
‘Canada must own up’: Manitoba First Nations leaders call for national inquiry into Sixties Scoop
Beginning in the mid-1950s and lasting until the early 1990s, a series of policies enacted by provincial child welfare authorities saw thousands of First Nations and Inuit children taken from their homes and families, placed in foster homes, and eventually adopted out to white families from across Canada and the United States.
Compensation for Indigenous children removed from homes not justice, says AFN chief
Assembly of First Nations Chief RoseAnne Archibald says any federal compensation paid to Indigenous children removed from their homes would be a recognition of the harms that were caused, but does not make amends for the damage done in the process.
Pope Francis Will Travel to Canada to Aid ‘Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples’
“The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has invited the Holy Father to make an apostolic journey to Canada, also in the context of the long-standing pastoral process of reconciliation with indigenous peoples,” states a message from Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office.
