On November 18 1978 the news from Guyana that 914 people had been found dead in an apparent suicide pact…
If ever the phrase ‘cycle of sectarian violence’ had deadly meaning it was during Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles’, especially in the…
In the late 1960s Northern Ireland was torn by factional violence between Catholic Nationalists and protestant Unionists. After two rioters…
In May 1970, soldiers of the Ohio National Guard fired 67 live rounds at a group of unarmed students at…
In Mexico the coalition PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institutional) government had begun to confront the problems of the poor but when…
America was bogged down in its anti-communist war against North Vietnam when in January 1968 Viet Cong guerrillas joined the…
Apartheid in South Africa became institutionalized in the 1940s and by 1960, under the government of the ultra-right National Party…
The Republic of China (ROC) sounds impressive, but now consists only of Taiwan (formerly the island of Formosa) off the…
In 1939 Poland was a rabbit torn apart by wolves as Nazi Germany invaded from the west and Soviet Russia…
Bath is an ordinary little town in rural Michigan, and May 18 1927 was an ordinary spring morning: men went…