Category Archives: History

Jews & 1917 Russian Revolution (Video)

Professors Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern U), Gabriella Safran (Stanford U) and Kenneth Moss (Johns Hopkins U) discuss aspects of Jewish culture surrounding the 1917 Russian Revolution. A program of YIVO at the Center for Jewish History in NYC.

History’s Most Infamous Double Agent (Video)

Kim Philby spent his entire life looking over his shoulder. After the Soviets recruited him as a young man, he managed to work his way up through the ranks to the highest levels of British Intelligence—all while feeding information to his handlers back in Moscow. Secrets, lies, and paranoia followed him everywhere he went, until his double life finally caught up to him. It sounds like a movie, but it was all real.

Do British Veterans Regret Fighting World War 2? (Video)

The idea that fighting World War 2 was a good thing is immediately taken for granted and if you dare oppose that narrative then you are viewed as some kind of evil extremist. This applies to generation after generation. The veterans themselves, however, are seemingly never asked. What does that brave generation of the war years really think? They blindly sacrificed everything for Britain in what they at the time believed to be a just cause. Do they still believe this? Do they regret it? Let’s cut through the post-war propaganda and hear the views of the men themselves. Their generation, at the very least, tells it how they see it.

1941 Invasion of Iran – Regime Change WWII-Style (Video)

In 1941, Iran was jointly invaded by the British Empire and the Soviet Union. Why did this happen to a neutral country? Find out how what happened in 1941 changed Iranian history and its difficult relationship with the West.

Lord Rothschild Claims His Family Created Israel (Video)

Backroom deals, betrayal, and a war that’s lasted almost a hundred years. This is what happened when the richest family in the world decided to create their own country. In 1917, the Rothschilds, the trillion-dollar family that invented modern-day banking, used their money, power, and influence to strike a secret deal with the British government.

Oda Nobunaga: The Great Unifier of Japan (Video)

Oda Nobunaga (23 June 1534 – 21 June 1582) was a Japanese daimyō and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods. He was the Tenka-bito (天下人, lit. ’person under heaven’) and regarded as the first “Great Unifier” of Japan.

Napoleon Ended A Three Century Reign of Terror In Spain

Commemorative Bronze Medal – Napoleon Ending the Spanish Inquisition

Napoleon is a polarizing figure. He made a name for himself across the pages of history with his stunning rise to power, his military conquests that swept Europe and his return from exile. Napoleon caused a lot of hurt and a lot of death but he also enacted some good during his time as Emperor of France. One of the little known achievements of Napoleon and his family was putting the final few nails in the coffin of the Spanish Inquisition, a movement that had been terrorizing Catholics for nearly four hundred years.

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Vienna: Empire, Dynasty and Dream | BBC Select (Video)

Vienna is pivotal in the story of Europe. Home to the Holy Roman Emperors and the target of Ottoman aggression, this cultured, decadent metropolis embraced the architectural Gothic style, rang to the sound of Baroque music and was the seat of one of history’s most powerful dynasties, the Hapsburgs. This famed royal family turned Austria’s capital into a wealthy hub of culture, music and ideas and it retains that legacy today.

They started it! The myth that Germany bombed this country first during the Second World War (Video)

There is a very strange and mistaken idea that it was that it was the Germans who began bombing British cities in 1940 and that this country then retaliated. In fact, Britain attacked Germany by air long before the Blitz.

Israel-Hamas: Norman Finkelstein vs Alan Dershowitz Round 2 (Video)

Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined once more by lawyer and author of The War Against the Jews Alan Dershowitz and professor and author of Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom Norman Finkelstein for a robust debate on the war raging on in Gaza, six months on from the October 7 attacks.