History Intrigue for March

By Rick Morris

Welcome to our seventh version of this new feature in The FDH Lounge, entitled History Intrigue.  We’re going to be flagging interesting-looking tidbits of a historical level.  While part of this is just going to come from general web surfing, many links each time are courtesy of Real Clear History, who does a great job aggregating for this topic just like all the others in the Real Clear brand.

We always work to be class acts in our own aggregation, so we’ll always give a mention of the site involved in the link.

^ From Alcatraz History, a look at one of history’s most storied prisons.

^ From Taki’s Mag, reconsidering the Pinochet regime.

^ From CNN, looking back at the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

^ From Chronicles Magazine, pondering whether the Iraq War was worth it.

^ From the National Observer, a revisionist defense of the Iraq War.

^ From Human Events, a retrospective of the SDI program in the 1980s.

^ From The New Republic, deconstructing the history of historian Howard Zinn.

^ From the Weekly Standard, the inner story of Israeli/Palestinian peace talks during the Bush Administration.

^ From Bloomberg, how the Beatles worked to escape crushing tax rates.

^ From Gambino.com, a portrayal of key Al Capone enforcer Frank Nitti.