After 1950

Major Kong
Aerial theatre, After 1950, Music, Pictures, Television, Videos

US AF

What could be more American than football, cheerleaders, and country music? According to Hank Williams Jr in 1989 [edit: more like 1996 — thanks, Robert Farley], only football, cheerleaders, country music, and air strikes on US national monuments (which magically transform them into symbols associated with football):

Sputnik I
After 1950, Cold War, Conferences and talks, Nuclear, biological, chemical, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures, Radio, Sounds, Space, Turning points in history

Turning points: Sputnik

After taking some time to recover after the marathon Road to War, I’m taking part in a new series of talks with ABC New England North West‘s Kelly Fuller, along with fellow members of the UNE School of Humanities Nathan Wise (who came up with the concept), Sarah Lawrence and Richard Scully (and more, if

2010 Anzac Day clash
1910s, After 1950, Australia, Books, Contemporary, Pictures

Lest we forget what?

[Cross-posted at Society for Military History Blog.] Today is Anzac Day, the anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli of Australian (and New Zealand, though my remarks here mostly pertain to my own country) troops on 25 April 1915. In the last two decades Anzac day has increasingly been seen as marking the coming of age

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