Sam Vaknin's Articles in History

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  • Chavez's Inspiration - Simon Bolivar
    Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary freedom fighter, a compassionate egalitarian and a successful politician.
  • The Aung San Family in Myanmar
    Aung San Suu Kyi is a much revered opposition leader in Myanmar (Burma) (born 1945). She has bravely resisted - and still does - the murderous military regime in her homeland and has won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Myths of the American Civil War
    The Civil War (1861-5) has spawned numerous myths and falsities.
  • Another Look at Mahatma Gandhi
    Many myths abound about Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand known as Mahatma "Great Souled") Gandhi (1869-1948).
  • The First Serial Killer - Ed Gein
    Ed Gein is also known as The Butcher of Plainfield, The Plainfield Butcher, The Mad Butcher, The Plainfield Ghoul.
  • Slavery in the USA
    The slaves were transported across the ocean in especially fitted ships. They were kept lying on narrow ledges, chained, but were brought above deck in good weather. Women and children were not shackled. Even these harsh conditions did not prevent the would-be slaves from frequently attempting to rebel, though, usually, unsuccessfully.
  • The American Revolution
    The American Revolution was a civil war between Loyalists to the British crown (aka Tories, about one fifth of the population), supported by British expeditionary forces, and Patriots (or Whigs) in the 13 colonies that constituted British North America.
  • Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
    People who exercise violence in the pursuit of what they hold to be just causes are alternately known as "terrorists" or "freedom fighters".
  • A Moment of Truth about Maxim Gorky
    Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) is widely considered a Bolshevik author, closely allied with the likes of Lenin and Stalin. But this is far from the truth.
  • Another Look at Indians (Native Americans, Amerindians)
    Native Americans are often cast in the role of victims of White aggression and unbridled avarice-driven or gratuitous violence, especially in the territories known collectively today as the United States. But the first massacre was perpetrated by Indians in the British colony Jamestown, in Virginia in 1622. They slaughtered 347 white men, women and children on that occasion.
  • Facts and Figures about the Presidents of the USA
    The first president of the united States was not George Washington.
  • Human-made Monsters
    Humans made monsters by inhuman treatment abound in literature.
  • Lindbergh, Charles Augustus
    Charles Augustus Lindbergh was the first person to cross the Atlantic in a nonstop flight. This made him an instant celebrity. When, in 1932, his 19-months old son was kidnapped and murdered, the nation was appalled.
  • More about the Prohibition
    Prohibition - the legal enforcement of abstinence from alcoholic beverages - is not an American invention.
  • The Abdication Crisis Revisited
    The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas.
  • The Armenian Genocide
    The Armenian massacres in Turkey started in the 19th century and continued well after the Armenian genocide of 1915 in which some 600,000 Armenians perished.
  • The Building of the Pentagon
    The Pentagon was completed in 16 months. It was built on a swamp and on the area of the old Washington airport. Trucks hauled some 5.5 million cubic yards (4.2 million cubic meters) of junk and soil and dumped it in the marshes. The building's foundation rests on 41,492 concrete piles.
  • The Constitution of the Weimar Republic
    The Weimar Republic was established in February 1919 in defeated Germany and lasted until March 1933, when it was replaced with Hitler's Third Reich.
  • The Family of Jesus Christ
    Was Jesus born 2002 years ago? Was he born in year zero?
  • The First September 11
    September 11, 2001 was not the first time an airplane crashed into a skyscraper. Actually, such tragedies are more common than is thought.
  • The Story of the Guillotine
    The guillotine was first put to lethal use on April 25, 1792, at 3:30 PM, in Paris at the Place de Greve on the Right Bank of the Seine. It separated highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier's head from the rest of his body.
  • The Teapot Dome Scandal
    With the exception of Watergate, there has never been a scandal more egregious and with wider implications than the Teapot Dome affair during the presidency of Warren G. Harding.
  • The Uganda Scheme
    Theodore Herzl, the visionary who founded Zionism, was an assimilated Jew, who did not consider Palestine the optimal choice for a resurgent Jewish nationalism.
  • The USSR That Could Have been - Lenin's New Economic Policy
    Mikhail Gorbachev (1931- ) was not the first to introduce Perestroika - the economic liberalization of the communist system along capitalistic lines.
  • The da Vinci Syndrome
    The history of the Catholic Church reads like the annals of a global crime concern.
  • Germany's Fourth Reich
    Germany's sprawling and all-pervasive civil service routinely uses red tape and regulatory powers to stifle dissent, punish adversaries of the regime, and reward cronies of the powers-that-be.
  • Renaissance and Nazism as Ideas of Progress
    Adolf Hitler put it more succinctly:

    "The new age of today is at work on a new human type. Men and women are to be healthier, stronger: there is a new feeling of life, a new joy in life."
  • Arctic Lessons
    Land claims in the Arctic were the first concrete step in the process of decolonizing the North by devolving decision-making authority from what many northerners have long perceived to be far away, colonial centers of administration and decision-making to local communities
  • Balkan Lessons
    No nation-state collapsed in the 1990s. Only implausible and unsustainable multi-cultural, multi-ethnic experiments (such as Czechoslovakia, the USSR, and Yugoslavia) did.
  • The USA, Israel's Friendly Bully
    During the 1950s and 1960s, the USA was essentially pro-Arab.
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