Wartime Historian Gifts

'And remind your father to take out the chicken from the freezer and don't forget to do your homework.'

Santa Clause Visits Union Troops

"It's not a bullet hole - it's a cavity."

The Confessions of Adolf Hitler

'And that's my last slide on the Russian campaign. Would somebody raise the blinds please.'

Gunter Grass, Member of the Waffen-SS.

"And that was the national news....Now for the obligatory 'end-of-the-news' World War Two item, to get the whole nation nostalgic for Churchill, powdered egg and mass slaughter..."

75th Anniversary of D-Day

Soldiers

No, you idiots, they don't include a "comments" section.

Department of No One Could Have Anticipated.

'... And some primitive cultures, believed that 'the great ones' modelled us from clay.'

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

Adult Courses. It's so hard keeping the information from different classes separate! I'm talking film history and psychology. I failed a test because I said a "psychopath" is the walkway Norman Bates took home. I also confused geography and aeronautics. I said the "great plains" are located at an Air Force testing base in the California desert. My worst nightmare was confusing the thinks ti learned in driver's education and statistics. But at least I now know it's driving where you must st

"Obama didn’t get to name a Supreme Court justice during his final year. So how come Trump does?"

"You're fired."

Trump Administration Raising White Flag in Ukraine

The Signing of tthe United States Constitution

'The History Channel is all reruns.'

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

Gender Equality

Albania and North Macedonia: entrance denied

'In its new 'spirit of evenhandedness,' the U. S. Government today sent troops to occupy all foreign countries....'

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

Who will determine Venezuela's future?

'It's a nice idea. A bit rough around the edges but I'm sure it will evolve given time.'

Great Chinese Dynasties

'What would your mum say if she saw you drawing all over the wall like that?'

Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty. It's always my intention to leave you laughing."

"Agamemnon and Clytemnestra have decided to separate amicably."

"'I don't want war'. . . well, wither our translation program is broke or this president has a strange kind of humor!"

Though he created more than 300 products from peanuts, George Washington Carver was unable to change even one of them back into a peanut.

Demure lady with gloves

"Before you chop off my head, don't you think we should see a counsellor?"