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Presidential History © John S. Cooper

Andrew Jackson and the Eaton Affair – A National Soap Opera

John S. Cooper - March 17, 2019

Presidential History © John S. Cooper

Teddy Roosevelt – More Fun Than a Goat

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Charles Francis Adams – Unsung Hero

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Election Surprises – FDR’s 1936 Re-Election

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Silent Cal Coolidge

American History

Women’s Status in Early 19th Century America

Christopher Wunder - June 27, 2017

Women of all classes in early 19th Century American history were politically powerless and forced to conform to the dependence on males. The American experiment...

The Scott Brothers and the Invention of Toilet Paper

May 21, 2017

Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, Co-Founder of Victorian Order of Nurses

August 18, 2018

Goldfish in America: How the U.S.’s First Non-Indiginous Fish Came to...

August 16, 2017

Bizarre Psychiatric Treatments of Bygone Days

June 26, 2017

Ancient History

Ancient Near East

How Geography Shaped Ancient Mesopotamia

Ancient History

River Valley Communities in Ancient Civilizations

Ancient History

Ancient Religion And The End Of The World: What The Ancients...

American History

American History

Fun Facts and Trivia about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

WH - January 15, 2017

Test your knowledge of trivia about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the federal holiday named after him. These fun facts and trivia are great...

The History of Women’s Rights – 1865 Through the Present

May 27, 2017

Understanding the Constitution in a Failing Economy

May 27, 2017

European History

Ancient British History

Harald Harefoot and Hardacanute: The End of the Danish Line

WH - May 26, 2017

By the time that Canute died, the people of England were tired. They were tired of fighting. They were tired of conquest. They were...

The Making of a Fuehrer

July 29, 2018

Early Arthurian Britain – Celtic Traditions: Survival and Revival

August 10, 2018

The Armenian Genocide and Race Extermination: How the World Responds to the Massacre of...

Middle Eastern History History Bot - September 27, 2018

The historical evidence, chiefly from eyewitness accounts and American diplomats & missionaries in Turkey in 1915, concludes that Turkish atrocities constituted genocide. In the midst...

Widener Family and the RMS Titanic

American History WH - May 27, 2017

This image has been recreated in movies, in art, in minds, and for some as eye witnesses to the event. While Millvina Dean is the...

Wild West Women: Tabitha Brown – A Grandmother Goes West

This Wild Wild West WH - May 21, 2017

Tabitha Brown was sixty-six years old when she headed west with her family in 1846. As a widow she had reached a time when...

Dodge City, Kansas: History of an Old West Cattle Town

American History History Bot - August 3, 2017

The evolution of Dodge City from a few sod houses to a railroad depot and booming cow town was a natural one considering its...

Russia

Russian History

The 1908 Tunguska Event

WH - May 23, 2017

Russian History

People of the Ballet Russes

Anastasia Timofeeva - November 22, 2018

Russian History

Boris Berezovsky’s Fall from Grace in the Year 2000

Anatoly Mikhailov - August 21, 2018

Military

Military History

Hadrian’s Wall: Rome’s Northernmost Frontier

Cathy Anne Smith - August 5, 2018

Military History

Royal Navy Rations in the Early 19th Century Facts and Myths

Tony Perry - September 10, 2018

Military History

History of the British Army in Brief

History Bot - July 3, 2017

Old West

This Wild Wild West

The Whipple Expedition to the Southwest

WH - May 21, 2017

This Wild Wild West

Wild Bunch – The Hunt for the Great Northern Train Robbers

WH - May 21, 2017

This Wild Wild West

Hank Vaughan, Oregon Rustler

WH - May 21, 2017

WW II

WW II History

Japanese Balloon Bombs of WWII: The Empire of Japan’s use of one way free balloons to bomb the US

WH - November 26, 2018

WW II History

Operation Mincemeat and the Man Who Never Was

WH - May 24, 2017

WW II History

The P-51 Mustang: The War-Bird that defeated the Luftwaffe

WH - November 28, 2018

Asia

Asian History

Historic Centre of Bukhara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

WH - August 30, 2018

Asian History

The Role of Ho Chi Minh in International and Vietnamese History

Robert McRoberts - March 14, 2018

Asian History

North Korea During the 1990s: The Hermit Kingdom Struggles to Feed Population

Jihan Wu - September 27, 2018

What Others Are Reading

Where is Arthur? Camlann and Beyond

Ancient British History WH - May 28, 2017

In all of this talk of the Heptarchy and the ascendancy of the Roman Church, we have seen precious little of the Welsh and...

Mnemonic Devices in the Early Church – Augustine and Aquinas

Medieval History WH - May 25, 2017

In the fifth century a work written by Marianus Capella, De nuptiis Philogiae et Mercurii ensured the survival of the ancient art of memory....

The Life and Struggles of Winston Churchill: Victory in Sight

Historical Biographies Marion Mink - September 11, 2018

1942 was a year of contrasts. The war in Russia was still ferociously fought, yet the first signs of final Allied victory could be...

Johnny Appleseed – Myth and Truth About an American Legend

American History History Bot - August 17, 2017

Johnny Appleseed is known to all American schoolchildren as a mythological pioneer who headed west planting apple trees. How much of the legend is...

Spirituality and Symbolism in the Late Stone Age

Archaeology WH - June 9, 2017

How the origins of ritual and religious thought could lie in the art and ritual of our Upper Palaeolithic ancestors of 10,000 -...

Medieval History

Medieval History

Modern and Medieval Thought

WH - May 24, 2017

To understand and assess rational thought and its importance to Christianity, medieval thinkers investigated the literature of Plato and Aristotle. The outcome of their...

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