Category Archives: Historical Essays
A visit to the Brontë Parsonage
Each year, 80,000 literary pilgrims make the trek into Brontë country in West Yorkshire. If [...]
“Rave in the Nave”: On the Desecration of English Churches
“The great cathedrals, so full of beauty and interest, are now like whales washed up [...]
When Middle Earth Came to Vienna: How a Polish king’s Winged Hussars Saved Christendom
This essay was first published at The European Conservative in December 2022. The release of [...]
The Last of the Greatest Generation: Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson (1922-2024)
Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson, the last World War II triple ace flyer, died peacefully in [...]
WATCH: 80 Years Later: The Prayers of D-Day
Eighty years ago today, soldiers surged up the Normandy beaches to defend a Christian civilization. [...]
What I saw at Corrie ten Boom’s Hiding Place
Eighty years ago, on February 28, 1944, the Nazis arrested a Dutch family in Haarlem [...]
The Miracle of Forgiveness: The Rwandan Genocide, Thirty Years Later
Thirty years ago, on 7 April 1994, the Rwandan genocide began. Over the course of [...]
The Long Island Hitlers (and other children of history’s great villains)
For decades, the Long Island Hitlers have been living quietly in the New York suburbs. [...]
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20 days in Mariupol
On February 20, 2022, the siege of Mariupol began. The Russian Armed Forces, alongside the [...]
Armenia’s memorial to the 20th century’s first genocide–against 1.5 million Christians
The Armenian Genocide Memorial rests atop the Tsitsernakaberd—literally, “swallow’s fortress”—a hill that rises sharply from [...]
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