History

This week in history: May 13-19

Mon, 13 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: May 6-12

Mon, 06 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: April 29-May 5

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: April 22-28

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: April 15-21

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: April 8-14

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Understanding Lincoln: An interview with historian Allen Guelzo

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Leading Abraham Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo recently spoke with Tom Mackaman of the World Socialist Web Site.

This week in history: April 1-7

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

The British working class and the American Civil War: 150 years since London’s St. James’ Hall meeting

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

March 26 marks the 150th anniversary of the “monster” antislavery, pro-Union meeting of British workers at St. James’ Hall in London.

This week in history: March 25-31

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: March 18-24

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: March 11-17

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: March 4-10

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week

This week in history: February 25-March 3

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: February 18-24

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: February 11-17

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: February 4-10

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Eighty years since Hitler’s coming to power

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Leon Trotsky drew far-reaching conclusions from the disastrous defeat of the German working class in 1933.

PBS’s The Abolitionists: Remembering the political struggle against slavery

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The Public Broadcasting System’s The Abolitionists is a reminder that the fight against slavery in the US was a hard-fought political struggle.

This week in history: January 28-February 3

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: January 21-27

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: January 7-13

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

We repost here a perspective initially posted on September 22 celebrating the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s order that legally freed 4 million slaves and altered the course of the American Civil War.

This week in history: December 31-January 6

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This week in history: December 24-30

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: December 17 - December 23

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

25 years ago: Wall Street insider trader sentenced to prisonIvan Boesky, 50 years old and one of Wall Street’s most successful speculators, was sentenced to three years in prison on December 18, 1987 for conspiring to file false stock trading records. Boesky was the center of a massive insider trading operation, illegally manipulating stock prices, conducting unlawful corporate takeovers and using false bookkeeping to cover up for his crimes.

This week in history: December 10-16

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: December 3-9

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Twenty years since Deng Xiaoping’s “Southern tour”—Part 2

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

On his 1992 tour, Deng made no secret of his embrace of capitalism.

Twenty years since Deng Xiaoping’s “Southern tour”—Part 1

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The tour became a key turning point in the process of capitalist restoration in China.

This week in history: November 26-December 2

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History by Jenny Hocking

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Whitlam's demise is presented as the downfall of a social reformer, almost totally ignoring the global context in which the 1975 Canberra Coup took place.

This week in history: November 19-25

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: November 12-18

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: November 5-11

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Interview with historian James McPherson: 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:00:00 GMT

McPherson is professor emeritus of history at Princeton University and the author of a number of books on the Civil War, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom.

This week in history: October 29-November 4

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Letters from our readers

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

This week in history: October 22-28

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: October 15-21

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: October 8-14

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

British historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012)

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 05:00:00 GMT

On October 1, noted British historian Eric Hobsbawm died at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He was 95.

Lecture at Historians’ Convention: In Defense of Leon Trotsky

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:00:00 GMT

We publish here the text of a lecture given at the Historians’ Convention at the University of Mainz in Germany by David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site.

This week in history: October 1-7

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Meeting in defense of Leon Trotsky at German Historians Conference

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 05:00:00 GMT

David North, chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site, and Professor Mario Kessler, lecturer and researcher at the Center for Contemporary Historical Research in Potsdam, spoke at a well-attended meeting Thursday at the University of Mainz.

This week in history: September 24-30

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

150 years since the Battle of Antietam

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The Battle of Antietam, fought 150 years ago in the second year of the American Civil War, set the stage for Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

This week in history: September 17-23

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week

This week in history: September 10-16

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: September 3-9

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: August 27-September 02

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week

This week in history: August 20-August 26

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: August 13-August 19

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: August 6-August 12

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Sixty years since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

On the sixty-seventh anniversary of the dropping of an atomic weapon on Hiroshima, Japan by the United States, we repost here an essay originally published in 2005.

Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag publishes Robert Service’s diatribe against Leon Trotsky

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The circumstances surrounding Suhrkamp Verlag’s release of the German edition of Robert Service’s denunciatory biography of Leon Trotsky can only be assessed as a scandal that has tarnished the reputation of the publishing house.

This week in history: July 30-August 5

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: July 23-29

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

“The 1968 Exhibit” in Oakland: What was that year really about?

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:00:00 GMT

A visitor hoping to get a new perspective on the political and social significance of the year 1968 from the current exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California will find that hope unfulfilled.

This week in history: July 16-22

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: July 9-15

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Mehring Books announces release of Tsar to Lenin in DVD format

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Tsar to Lenin, first released in 1937, ranks among the twentieth century’s greatest film documentaries. It presents an extraordinary cinematic account of the Russian Revolution—from the mass uprising which overthrew the centuries-old Tsarist regime in February 1917, to the Bolshevik-led insurrection eight months later that established the first socialist workers’ state, to the final victory in 1921 of the new Soviet regime over counter-revolutionary forces after a three-year-long civil war.

This week in history: July 2-8

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Canadian imperialism’s intervention in the Russian Civil War

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Benjamin Isitt has excavated an important, but long-buried historical chapter—the story of the Canadian ruling class’ intervention in the Russian Civil War and the fierce opposition it provoked among Canadian workers, including among the conscript soldiers sent to fight alongside the counter-revolutionary White armies.

Preface to Yakhot’s history of early Soviet philosophy

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Yehoshua Yakhot’s The Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR (The 1920s & 1930s) is essential reading for an understanding of the devastating impact of Stalinism on philosophy in the Soviet Union. The translator’s preface being published today provides an introduction to this new English translation.

This week in history: June 25-July 1

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Letters from our readers

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 05:00:00 GMT

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.

This week in history: June 18-24

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: June 11-17

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: June 4 - June 10

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Remembering the Ludlow Massacre

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The World Socialist Web Site publishes the concluding installment in a series on the Colorado miners’ strike of 1913-1914.

Remembering the Ludlow Massacre

Thu, 31 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The World Socialist Web Site publishes the third installment in a four-part series on the Colorado miners’ strike of 1913-1914.

Remembering the Ludlow Massacre

Wed, 30 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The World Socialist Web Site publishes the second installment in a four-part series on the Colorado miners’ strike of 1913-1914.

Remembering the Ludlow Massacre

Tue, 29 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The World Socialist Web Site publishes the first installment in a five-part series on the Colorado miners’ strike of 1913-1914, which culminated in the Ludlow Massacre and the Ten Days war.

This week in history: May 28-June 3

Mon, 28 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

“Of course, Trotsky was an alternative to Stalin”

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This is the second part of a two-part interview with German historian Professor Mario Kessler on the 2009 biography of Leon Trotsky by Robert Service. Part one was posted on Monday, May 21. Professor Kessler is a co-signatory of a letter sent by 14 European sociologists and political scientists to the Suhrkamp Verlag publishing house raising grave reservations about its plan to bring out a German edition of Service’s book.

“Of course, Trotsky was an alternative to Stalin”

Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This is the first part of a two-part interview with German historian Professor Mario Kessler on the 2009 biography of Leon Trotsky by Robert Service. Professor Kessler is a co-signatory of a letter sent by 14 European sociologists and political scientists to the Suhrkamp Verlag publishing house raising grave reservations about its plan to bring out a German edition of Service’s book.

This week in history: May 21-27

Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: May 14-20

Mon, 14 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: May 7-13

Mon, 07 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: April 30-May 6

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: April 23-29

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: April 16-22

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: April 9-15

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 12

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The World Socialist Web Site is continuing publication of The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) which was adopted unanimously at the party’s founding congress in Colombo, 27–29 May 2011.

The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 11

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This week in history: April 2-8

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: March 26-April 1

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Leipzig meeting on Leon Trotsky and the defence of historical truth

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMT

David North, chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site, spoke before a large and appreciative audience in Leipzig on his recently published book In Defense of Leon Trotsky and its critique of the biography of Trotsky by the British author Robert Service.

This week in history: March 19-25

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Public meeting in Leipzig: Leon Trotsky and the defense of historical truth

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMT

David North, author of In Defense of Leon Trotsky, will speak at this year’s Leipzig Book Fair on March 16.

This week in history: March 12-18

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

The uncertain future of Pompeii’s extraordinary ruins

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The ancient Roman town is in great danger due to years of under-funding and over-exploitation, producing widespread degradation and the collapse of ruins.

This week in history: March 05 - March 11

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: February 27-March 4

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: February 20-26

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: February 13-19

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

New evidence points to German police involvement in 1967 murder of student protester

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

New evidence suggests that Benno Ohnesorg, a student protester, was deliberately killed by police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras in 1967 during protests against a visit by the Shah of Iran.

Robert Service wins support from the extreme right in Germany

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The extreme right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit has weighed in on the debate over a German edition of Robert Service's biography of Leon Trotsky, wholeheartedly defending Service against the criticisms of fourteen historians and political scientists.

This week in history: February 6-12

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.