Random Thoughts by Mark Milliorn

Among the myriad of reasons for the first world war, the mounting problems of imperialism rank high on the list.  The Western powers had eff...

It is a commonly understood maxim of war that conflict accelerates the rate of change and innovation.  Military historians usually concentra...

Today is the Ides of April and my thoughts keep spinning around the sinking of the Titanic, the assassination of Lincoln, and (unfortunately...

When Porfirio Diaz seized the presidency of Mexico in 1876, the country had been almost bypassed by the social and industrial revolutions th...

It started with the 1973 oil crisis.  The Middle Eastern oil exporting nations, led by Saudi Arabia, were angry about losing to Israel in th...

There are great books that for reasons that escape me, people have simply stopped reading.  I am talking about classics that anyone with a l...

If we start at the very beginning, as historians are wont to do unless threatened with violence, we have to go back three thousand five hund...

This week was spring break and I took the opportunity to visit the Meadows Art Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.  If anyone...

In the news, there is a story about an enterprising young engineer working on a new design for a storage battery.  Unfortunately, the batter...

The New Mexico state legislature just finished its session with surprisingly good results.  Only a couple of the lawmakers were arrested to ...