Many Europeans call the Byzantine Empire ‘Greek’, when in practice it was very ethnically diverse. Greeks composed a relatively small portion of this multi-ethnic empire, and most Byzantine emperors were not ethnic Greeks. Justinian was obliged to build the current Hagia Sophia after it was dam...
This First Thanksgiving—as we call it today—was a three-day event. The local sachem (it’s a native name for “leader”)Massasoitand 90 to 100 members of thePokanoket, a local tribe that in 1621 began interacting with the colonists, participated in the celebration. Historians are unsur...
Today, Progressives are a large part of both the Green and Democrat parties, while raw Socialists, Marxists, Anarchists, and Communists pretty much make up the remainder of the two. Just my opinion…(Heck, progressives are entrenched in the Republican Party as well. We call them “Moderates...
If the Ottoman regime was not itself "imperialism," then we have the use of a novel principle that only Europeans have empires or imperial ideology (an ideology of conquest, like Islamic Jihād) -- even though we have decided that "Empire" is the only non-Eurocentric thing to call the ...
When an occasional human being gets a disease that circulates among birds, it’s okay to call that “bird flu” too; in fact, it helps emphasize that something weird and unusual has happened. But if H5N1 ever mutates or reassorts so it can pass easily among humans, the resulting virus...