Category Archives: History

Salem Witch Trials, Part One: Massachusetts on the Eve of the Panic

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 January 2025

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Islamic State Profiles its “Hidden Figures”

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 January 2025

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Jewish Influence At the Origins of Islam

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 November 2024

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Assessing the Early-Codification Theory of the Qur’an

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 November 2024

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Martin Luther King and J. Edgar Hoover

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 November 2024

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A Note on Franjo Tuđman, Nationalism, and Historical “Revisionism”

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 October 2024

As Jugoslavija broke down and slid into war in the early 1990s, part of the political warfare between the parties was an effort by Serbia and Bosnia to portray Croatia’s president, Franjo Tuđman, as a “fascist”.

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Jews and the Russian Orthodox Church

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 October 2024

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The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement: 1845 – 1866

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 September 2024

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Book Review: ‘Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955’

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 September 2024

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Russia and Hawaii: A Case of Colonialism Gone Sideways

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 August 2024

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