Author: andrei

Howard Zinn beleives that a very important aspect of the Civil War that is often times left out of the history books is the conflict between rich and poor. Fact:…

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black…

The characters from the Movie “Glory” which depicts the the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company, demonstrate many qualities of leadership. Robert Gould Shaw (Mathew Broderick),…

In the modern Olympic athletics program there are several events which will always be considered marquee, setting the identity more often than not for that specific games. The 100 metres…

At every Olympic Games during the modern era there have been athletes who stamp their mark on their events imperiously, silencing critics and shrugging off rivals. At the 1988 Seoul…

The modern Olympic Games and Jewish athletes have not had the best of relationships. Unfrtunately, due to some very un-Olympic attitudes towards race and religion the efforts of the Jewish…

Without a doubt the 1936 Berlin Summer Games were the largest, most controversial and most nationalistic games of the modern era before the beginning of the Second World War. Originally…

When one compares the Winter and Summer Olympics, the former appears to have the more potential for death and dismemberment when it comes to the individual sports. For every dangerous…

Up until 1984 and the games of the XXIIIrd Olympiad the iconic event of the marathon had been limited to male participation only. There had been one unoffical female runner…

As recorded elsewhere in this blog the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics were marred by a Soviet-led boycott, reducing the original number of invited competing nations. The 16 countries that didn’t…