Tag: History
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, often described as a prose-poem for its surprising brevity and deep meaning, is the most moving work of political discourse I’ve ever read. In that short speech, Lincoln captured the horrific nature of war and the terrible burdens of an American history built literally on the backs of slaves.
Si è spesso sentito parlare di “esercito europeo”, “difesa comune”, “NATO europea”, ma quasi mai le informazioni a riguardo sono state chiare e precise. Il sogno europeo di un esercito comune è nato morto nel 1954 – e continua a morire
Downing Street persuaded Panorama to cut an exposé on the shooting of an unarmed boy in Derry in 1972, reports Anne Cadwallader.
From 16th-century Angola’s nganga-ia – transvestite priests with unchecked power – to Brazil’s Supreme Court equating transphobia with racism, history echoes.
