Category Archives: Historical Essays
A Christian Remembrance Day in Canada
Last week, I wrote a column for The European Conservative on the Trudeau government’s attempt [...]
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Cutting God out of Remembrance Day
Every year on November 11, Canadians across the country cluster in the cold around cenotaphs [...]
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The Last Days Of George Orwell
For a man who breathed his last at the young age of 46, Eric Arthur [...]
The Courage to Care: What motivated Holocaust rescuers?
In 1985, a half-hour documentary directed by Robert H. Gardner titled The Courage to Care [...]
On the road with Laura Ingalls Wilder
Telling people that your family just visited De Smet, South Dakota, generally produces quizzical looks. [...]
Anne Frank’s Friends: Living Memory and the Holocaust
By Jonathon Van Maren Inoticed recently that Hannah Goslar passed away in October 2022 in [...]
How the Great War transformed Western civilization–and is still with us today
By Jonathon Van Maren My introduction to this series on the 20th century, “The Century that [...]
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What the last American Civil War tells us about this one
By Jonathon Van Maren Like millions of other people, my first fascination with the epic [...]
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