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In 1940, the future president John F. Kennedy published a book which investigates the question of why England was unprepared for war with Germany in 1939. In this day and age it is hard to imagine a leader of the United States thinking deeply on much of anything other than their own personal image. The…
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“All this happened, more or less” Kurt Vonnegut begins his classic work, Slaughterhouse Five. Since the story involves the character Billy Pilgrim traveling through space and time this seems almost unimaginable. For certain, Vonnegut felt the same during his time sheltering during the bombing raid in Schlachthof 5 (Slaugherhouse Five). Vonnegut uses a science fiction…
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The Supermarine Spitfire is certainly one the most iconic fighters of World War II, and one of my personal favorites. Powered by the Rolls Royce Merlin engine it was a formidable fighter that helped defend the English skies during the Battle of Britain. During the Battle of Britain the Spitfire had something in its gas…
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The great pyramid at Giza has intrigued and fascinated people for millenia, myself included. There are also certainly untold theories as to how they were built. I’ve never been to swayed by the aliens built them or that the Egyptians had some sort of wild scifi like technology that we don’t understand. The ancient…
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Why even study or history? What have we learn to from the past? This is a question many historian has asked through the ages. Personally, I can’t help but be obsessed or perhaps afflicted with a thirst for knowledge of the past. It is so satisfying in some way to understand how things became the…
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I have been interested, maybe even obsessed with history for as long as I can remember. Not only big sweeping arcs of history, but the everyday and even sometimes mundane parts. I love to go down endless rabbit holes on sometimes obscure topics i.e. why did Napoleonic troops line up in brightly colored uniforms. I’m…
History Buff Chronicle 