World History

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Dr. John McLoughlin Opens Fort Vancouver in 1825

History Bot - July 22, 2017

The lucrative fur trade in the Pacific Northwest led the Hudson's Bay Company to establish Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River in the vast...

Georgina Fane Pope, First Matron of Canadian Army Nursing Corps

October 19, 2018

“Every Jot and Tittle” – Where Does That Expression Come From?

June 5, 2017

Making Professional Fire Departments

August 17, 2017

Shenandoah Valley History in Staunton, Virginia

August 14, 2017

Ancient History

The Golden Millennium: From Buddha to Muhammad

Ancient History

Antikythera: The First Ancient Computer

Ancient Near East

How Geography Shaped Ancient Mesopotamia

American History

James Oliver – He Changed Farming Forever

WH - May 28, 2017

It may surprise some people to know the term tractor has a connection with the history of Oliver tractors. In 1906, when W.H. Williams,...

War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Meigs, May 1, 1813

May 29, 2017

Laura Haviland Neglected Heroine of the UGRR

July 10, 2017

European History

Ancient British History

Saxons on Horseback? Why Not?

WH - May 28, 2017

Why didn’t the Saxons fight on horseback? Some of them were trained in Roman legions, so they must have known how. It’s a mystery...

The Habsburg Imperial Plan of Emperor Maximilian I

February 28, 2018

A League of Nations, For Nations? Part 1

December 4, 2018

The President’s Lady – Hannah Hoes Van Buren

Presidential History © John S. Cooper John S. Cooper - May 7, 2019

Martin Van Buren’s wife never made it to the White House. She died eighteen years before her husband was elected President. Still, this “almost...

Sixteenth-Century Art: Venetian Painting

Art History WH - September 28, 2018

Renaissance painters from Venice developed their own distinctive style using light and a rich color palette. There were several schools, or regional traditions, of Italian...

Prostitution in the Gilded Age: “Fallen” Women and the Social Evil in New York...

American History History Bot - August 18, 2017

Prostitution was the primary social problem of the Gilded Age. Prostitutes' lives were fraught with peril, and sympathy for such "fallen" women was hard...

Historical Saratoga in Santa Clara County

American History WH - July 6, 2017

Part of Silicon Valley but different from it in both look and feel, Saratoga, California has been a logging hub, a tourist center and...

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Medieval History

Medieval Church Corruption

WH - June 6, 2017

Cycles of Medieval church corruption coincided with the growth of strong secular rulers and were only tempered by the appearance of reformist popes and...