History: Overcoming the Odds
General Jackson got the nickname "Stonewall" from the First Battle of Bull Run (1861), where his troops stood against the Union forces "like a stonewall," as told from Brig. General Barnard E. Bee. While Jackson was commanding, the "Stonewall Brigade," during a campaign in the Shenandoah Valley in the spring of 1862, Jackson made a very controversial and remarkable tactical maneuver against three Union armies. People say Jackson met his "right hand man," General Robert E. Lee, when they teamed u ...
History: Isabella, Queen of Castille
Until the 15th century, Spain was only a distant participant in the general movement of European affairs. The different kingdoms sharing the Spanish peninsula were individually too weak to pursue an energetic foreign policy. Spain was actually poorly developed country.
The marriage of royal cousins, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille, in 1469 brought stability to both kingdoms. Both understood the importance of unity; together they effected institutional reform, such as in the Span ...
History: Nationalism, Identity and Human Rights
In one week in August of 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic became history. The forces of reform unleashed by President Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid 1980’s generated a democratic movement. Gorbachev’s economic policies threw his country into even more turmoil and chaos, as the different nationalities used their new freedoms to move away from the union. Gorbachev sincerely wanted to reform the communist system, but he did not want to eliminate it. He recognized there was a lot of wrong ...
History: Holocaust Victims/Slavery Victims
Freedom is the most valuable thing in the world. It is what we get from the very moment of our appearance in this world. The other thing is how we will use our freedom. Many people don’t understand the pricelessness of freedom. But those who one in a life has collided with the slavery know well the price of the freedom. The institution of slavery is as old as civilization. Many nations and empires were built by the muscles of slaves. As sad as it is but nobody denies that nowadays slavery still ...
History: The Monroe Doctrine
The proclamation, known as the Monroe Doctrine, was issued by American President James Monroe, and on December 2, 1823 it was presented to American Congress during the President’s annual address. By this doctrine America expressed its requirement to stop any European colonization and interference into the affairs of American countries. This doctrine started a new epoch in American diplomatic foreign policy and had considerable influence on future political development of the society of the whole ...
History: McCarthyism
Today's yellow-bellied Liberals and insane pushers of the left-wing agenda are trying to convince us that the so-called “McCarthyism”, in sixties, was nothing but a modern day witch-hunt. But the buggers go even further – they suggest that the Communism itself was based on the “progressive” ideas of equality. They say it was just being wrongly interpreted – just like Christians suggest that the Inquisition was just a slight deviation from the “shining truth”. Well, let us remember what the Commu ...
History: The Cold War
The second part of the 20th century was marked by the unprecedented confrontation of two superpowers, the USA and the USSR known as the “Cold War”. The entire world was involved into that confrontation balancing between the global military conflict and the fragile peace. The consequences of the erroneous concept “enemies of my strategic enemy are my friends” have been observed now from the terrorist acts in Moscow up to the 9/11 tragedy in the USA.
If it is assumed that the politics is the conc ...
