Since the Mayflower docked in 1620, America has behaved as a friendly home for the people searching for a brighter financial future. Bhu Srinivasan, the author of Americana, is one of those...
Category: History
You know the term "too big to fail" right? This is a very suitable example for the British East India Company. It was originally established as a joint-stock company and later turned into a...
It is believed that a man can change history; however, can this be applied to a city? Well, if there was a city that could assert that kind of a legacy, it would probably be Jerusalem. Serving as a...
Does the politics of America look more controversial than ever before? Definitely, it does. However, Trump isn’t just the only president whereby his impeachment crisis has crushed American...
Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson [Book Summary – Review]
For most of history, the larger part of humankind stayed in empires. Different from contemporary nation-states, there were no tough boundaries in empires. Religious change, wars of conquest and Royal...
Have you watched that film that featured Daniel Day-Lewis as Martin Van Buren? What of the movie that starred Henry Fonda as a young Rutherford B. Hayes? Definitely, you haven’t watched...