Subscribe now and receive weekly newsletters with educational materials, new courses, interesting posts, popular books, and much more!
Articles
The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College > Articles
America, Britain, Mossaddeq, and the Iranian Counter-Coup, 1953
19
Aug
2020
2
Americans were right to fear Mossaddeq, for his aim was to diminish freedom. They should, however, have imposed the same powerful pressure on the Shah further to liberalize Iran’s politics and evolve toward a constitutional democracy. Occasionally there were efforts to curb his excesses, but they were strong enough only to encourage his fundamentalist foes. America’s failure to push for a peaceful transition to a liberal state, combined with the Shah’s authoritarianism and too rapid modernizations, made the revolution of 1979 inevitable.
Great Contemporaries: T.E. Lawrence – No Greater Churchillian
15
Aug
2020
1
Churchill and the Clash of Tyrants: Did the Soviets Really Win WW2?
12
Aug
2020
2
The Soviets contributed mightily to victory, but their success was owed to Churchill and Roosevelt, who provided crucial aid and kept Japan occupied.
The British Raj According to Tharoor: Some of the Truth, Part of the Time
07
Aug
2020
4
Great Contemporaries: Richard Haldane, “Prodigy, Paragon and Philosopher-Statesman”
05
Aug
2020
With his many achievements, Haldane stood as warning that the apex of politics, there was no such thing as friendship. Except perhaps with Churchill.
Tags:
Albert Einstein,
Andrew Bonar Law,
Andrew Roberts,
Beatrice Webb,
Edward Carson,
Edward Grey,
H.H. Asquith,
Haldane Mission,
Herbert Samuel,
John Morley,
Lord Beaverbrook,
Lord Northcliffe,
Prince Louis of Battenberg,
Richard Burdon Haldane,
Sidney Webb,
Stanley Buckmaster,
Winston S. Churchill,
Great Contemporaries: Philip Sassoon – A Friend at the End of an Era
01
Aug
2020
Throwback to vanished age, Sassoon served his country in war and peace, and entertained the glitterati at his palatial mansions. He died too young.
Tags:
Anthony Eden,
David Lloyd George,
Douglas Haig,
Fred Glueckstein,
Gallipoli,
Gallipoli campaign,
John French,
Kenneth Clark,
Marthe Bibesco,
Philip Sassoon,
Philip Tilden,
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother,
Richard Tauber,
Robert Boothby,
Samuel Hoare,
Siegfried Sassoon,
Stanley Baldwin,
Winston S. Churchill,
Hillsdale College’s Official Biography: A Reader’s Appreciation
31
Jul
2020
The Biography “is true, insofar as diligence and research can establish truth…. All an author can offer is a fragment of reality—that, and the hope that it will endure.” —William Manchester
Churchill and the Presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, Sentiment and Politics
23
Jul
2020
1
In wartime, Eisenhower related to Churchill as junior to senior. As President, the relationship vastly changed, but ties of sentiment were still there.
Tags:
1953 Bermuda Conference,
Anglo-Persian Oil Company,
Anthony Eden,
Battle of Gettysburg,
Bermuda Conference,
Edgar Faure,
Harold Macmillan,
John Colville,
John Foster Dulles,
Joseph Stalin,
Klaus Larres,
Martin Gilbert,
Michael Howard,
Mohammad Mosaddegh,
Peter Boyle,
SHAEF,
Stephen Ambrose,
Winston S. Churchill,
“Never Flinch”…the last of The Churchill Documents brings the saga full circle
23
Jul
2020
1
Never Flinch, Never Weary chronicles a time when mankind stood “uncertainly poised between world catastrophe and a golden age.”
Tags:
Anthon Nutting,
Anthony Eden,
Bermuda Conference,
Dien Bien Phu,
Dwight Eisenhower,
European Coal and Steel Community,
European Economic Community,
Gamal Abdel Nasser,
Georgy Malenkov,
Harold Macmillan,
John Foster Dulles,
King Farouk,
Klaus Larres,
Larry Arnn,
Martin Gilbert,
Queen Elizabeth II,
Rab Butler,
Vyacheslav Molotov,
“The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists.” Not WSC.
09
Jul
2020
14
Churchill never said this: he was far too fastidious to apply such a term generically. He knew his fascists, and identified them more specifically.
Churchill and His Autumn Years: Ways to Live a Long life
09
Jul
2020
1
The “golden years” are not always golden, but Winston Churchill’s long life offers perspective and encouragement to those of “a certain age.”
Churchill and the Litigious Alfred Douglas: Two Trials and a Sonnet (Part 2)
02
Jul
2020