Durham, 16 ago – Uno scempio, una furia iconoclasta degna dell’Isis. Guardando le immagini degli antifa impegnati ad abbattere e prendere a calci la statua di un soldato confederato a Durham in North Carolina, il paragone con distruzione dei …

It’s a troubling piece of Minnesota’s past: Thirty-eight Dakota men hanged from a Mankato gallows in December 1862. Their deaths scarred generations of native people and cemented Minnesota as home to the largest mass execution in U.S. history.

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The first ever full-genome analysis of Ancient Egyptians shows they were more Turkish and European than African. Scientists analysed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from 1400 BC to 400 AD and discovered they shared genes with people from the …

Adolf Hitler gassed and killed 6 million Jews during World War II — a genocide that makes his reluctance to use sarin against his military adversaries an enduring mystery.

di Michael S. Rosenwald dal  dell’11 aprile 2017

It wasn’t because …

On March 1, 1917, American newspapers published the scandalous contents of the Zimmermann Telegram, a secret German communiqué that proposed a Mexican-German alliance in the event that the United States entered World War I. The note is now credited with …

Se pensate che il neologismo “post-verità” descriva un nuovo fenomeno, per di più favorito da internet, ecco l’occasione per ripensarci. Un intervento della storica inglese Eleanor Parker sul mensile “History Today” ci ricorda che lo scrittore e poeta Geoffrey Chaucer …

Beaucoup de gens ont évoqué Marie-Antoinette et ses derniers instants, mais, d’Alexandre Dumas à Stephan Zweig, ce sont plutôt des hommes de lettres, touchés par ce destin unique. Les derniers jours de Marie-Antoinette n’avaient jamais été ra­diographiés par un spécialiste …

Hela Ouardi est professeur de littérature et de civilisation à Tunis.

Le Point.fr : Telle que vous la décrivez, la fin de Mahomet est une vraie tragédie shakespearienne…

Hela Ouardi : Effectivement, le prophète de l’islam subit de nombreuses épreuves …

Complete with gladiator fights, chariot races and a haughty Egyptian pharaoh – this celebration of Roman life was a true feast for the senses.

di Rory Tingle dal Mailonline del 25 aprile 2016

The Great Roman Games in the amphitheatre …

According to historian and professor at the Free University of Brussels David Engels, the EU is currently facing a system change comparable with that in the late Roman Republic. In his book “Le déclin. La crise de l’Union européenne et …