On the one hand, one can observe its enrichment, and, on the other hand, destruction, especially in old, less known cemetery spaces. Many monuments, including cemeteries, have not survive up till now. The very article is documentary in nature and presents the autho...
With the exception of the Canadian memorial described above, the cemeteries and statues seem more designed to reassure the living than to commemorate the dead. The memories of Williamson and other veterans are the truest memorials. In the end, Williamson finds “the wraiths were fled,” and hims...
This very old information has long been superceded, and even refuted, by more recent research. For instance, the following historian has assembled far more eyewitness data than either Jan T. Gross or Anna Bikont. It clearly shows that Jedwabne was a German crime, with Poles playing a subsidi...
less than a month before the attack on Fort Sumter ignited the Civil War, Stephens declared that slavery “was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.” Furthermore, he added, the foundation of the Confederate government–its very cornerstone...