http://www.tolerance.ca/Rubrique.aspx?ID=23&L=en History Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:30:13 -0500 2010 Tolerance.ca en-ca http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=62404&L=en Fidel Castro says Cuba's contribution to the independence struggle in Africa has never been properly acknowledged. Soon, Cuba will open its archives to researchers and historians working on the history of Africa. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500 History http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=106&L=en Every year for several weeks before November 11, a field of scarlet poppies appears on coat lapels across Canada. This wearing of the poppy has a complex history ... Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500 History Anna de Aguayo http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=23687&L=en Benny Morris has been one of the best known of Israel’s “new historians” or revisionists who have challenged accepted versions of their state’s history. Morris first came to broader public attention with his challenging work on the origins of the Palestinian refugee issue, in which he ably demonstrated that the tide of refugees was not merely the result of Arab radio broadcasts or their leaders calling on them to desert their villages but also of Israel’s deliberate use of force, even terror and the thorough destruction of their villages and mosques. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 History Stephen Scheinberg http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=23685&L=en Once again the case of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and their co-defendant Morton Sobell has been featured in the news. Most of you will recall that the Rosenberg couple was executed in 1953 on the charge of conspiracy to commit espionage and Sobell received a 30 year sentence. The case aroused passions around the globe with those on the left condemning it as a legal lynching and those on the right defending the sentences as a reasonable response to Soviet spying. Both sides were wrong. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 History Stephen Scheinberg http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=5198&L=en Certain dates are more significant than others. November 7th, 2007 marked the 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. This did not seem to be noted in the Canadian press. Yet, it is an event that is not one to be forgotten. I was recently surprised when a friend told me that some of his university students did not know what the Cold War was. Has the divide between East and West been forgotten? Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 History Miriam Rabkin http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=689&L=en By Jim Teeple  Forty years ago Tuesday, June 5, the 1967 Arab-Israeli War began. Lasting just six days, the war was an unqualified victory for Israel and a complete defeat for the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. As VOA's Jim Teeple reports, nowhere did the war have a greater impact than in Jerusalem, where - 40 years later - the future of this historic city and its residents remains unresolved. Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0500 History http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=606&L=en by Desmond Morton, Emeritus Professor Department of History, McGill University  Except for a few years during the Second World War, when Stalin made himself Hitler's ally, and Communists around the world quit fighting Fascism and allied themselves with Nazism, Canada never banned the Communist Party. Ontario's brief experience of persecution had been a lesson. It was not hard to persuade a judge that Tim Buck and the CPC leadership had defied Section 94 of the Criminal Code and most had received long prison sentences. Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0500 History