March 2020 – Page 2 – Manchester Historian

The history of relations between the United States and the indigenous nations of America is a long and violent one. In their quest to fulfil America’s ‘manifest destiny’, Euro-Christians were determined to spread their influence from sea to sea of the “New World”

The Crisis of the Third Century laid bare to the Roman state the presence, throughout the empire, of a religious community whose faith and doctrines ran against everything it meant to be Roman.

On the 14th of August 1969, British troops arrived in Northern Ireland in what would come to be their longest deployment in modern history. Though heralded as the day the Troubles began, the origins of this thirty-year conflict are rooted in the conception of Northern Ireland as a state: a tale of British colonialism, sectarian oppression, and nationalistic pride.

Prostitution is endemic to war. War zones in a wide variety of geographical settings and throughout the course of history, all share the fact that prostitution grows relation to the presence of soldiers.

Josip Broz Tito’s efforts to unify Yugoslavia were instrumental in prolonging the life of the state. After his death, Yugoslavia changed dramatically. His personality and policies were vital in creating uniting and generating a sense of community between the nations that made up the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.