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Thursday, October 17, 2019

European History

Third Great Voyage in History – Charles Darwin

WH - May 21, 2017

"If a person suffer much from sea-sickness, let him weigh it heavily in the balance. I speak from experience... It is no trifling evil...

Who was Saint Patrick?

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A History of Rushen Abbey, an Important Manx Religious Site

May 25, 2017

18th President of the United States: Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)

June 25, 2017

Cocaine Mummies

June 28, 2017

Ancient History

Ancient History

The History of Easter

Ancient Egypt

Egyptian Influence On The Biblical Creation Story

Ancient History

Why Rome Never Conquered the Mediterranean Sea

American History

American History

Joseph Bonaparte’s Place in the History of New Jersey

WH - June 29, 2017

The Bonaparte family tree and the history of New Jersey merged when Joseph Bonaparte built an estate at Point Breeze, near Bordentown, on the...

Supreme Court Judge of Pennsylvania

July 17, 2017

Behind the Walls of Yuma Territorial Prison

July 11, 2017

European History

UK/Irish History

The Glorious Revolution and the Reign of King William III

Paula McLeod - July 3, 2017

The bloodless revolution in England in 1688-1689 led to constitutionalism and greater Parliamentary control over the monarchy. On January 22, 1689, William of Orange convened...

The Lemon, One of Isabella d’Este’s Many Status Symbols

February 5, 2018

Early Arthurian Britain – Belief Systems and Change

August 4, 2018

The Steam-Powered Fire Engine: Cincinnati’s Noble Contribution to Fire-Fighting History

American History History Bot - August 17, 2017

Some people are by nature very resistant to change. Sooner or later, most people eventually begin to come around to realize that such change...

Who Invented the Elevator? American Inventor Elisha Graves Otis and before

General WH - July 30, 2018

Like is so often true, the answer depends upon your point of view. If looking for the first documented device that could do the...

Bergen-Belsen: Hell on Earth

WW II History WH - May 24, 2017

A World War Two veteran remembers the hell and horror that laid in wait the day the Allies liberated the notorious Nazi concentration...

Battle of Little Bighorn: 53 – Major Marcus Reno

American History Gail Bellenger - February 21, 2018

Major Marcus Reno Major Marcus Reno returned from his scouting trip on June 20, after having exceeded his orders. General Terry had ordered him only...

Russia

Russian History

Boris Berezovsky’s Rise to Power During the 1990s

Anatoly Mikhailov - August 20, 2018

Russian History

Tatiana Nikolaievna

Anastasia Timofeeva - August 20, 2018

Russian History

Soviet Ukraine Before the Great Famine, 1917-1931

Anatoly Mikhailov - August 18, 2018

Military

Military History

Famous Recycled Ship Names of the US Navy

WH - May 24, 2017

The Russian Civil War 1917-1922

Nestor Makhno Anarchist General

WH - May 23, 2017

Military History

The Civil War Coehorn Mortar

History Bot - August 14, 2018

Old West

This Wild Wild West

Wild Bunch – The Trials and Travels of Annie Rogers

WH - May 21, 2017

This Wild Wild West

Wild Bunch – Capturing a Train Robber: Kid Curry’s Escapades in Knoxville, Tennessee

WH - May 21, 2017

This Wild Wild West

Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch

WH - May 21, 2017

WW II

WW II History

The German Invasion and Occupation of Greece, 1941- 44

WH - May 24, 2017

WW II History

Bergen-Belsen: Hell on Earth

WH - May 24, 2017

WW II History

A Unique American Fighter Aircraft: The Vought F4U Corsair

WH - May 24, 2017

Asia

Asian History

The First Fall of the Mongols

Doug Ellison - August 29, 2018

Asian History

King Sejong and the Invention of Hangul

WH - August 11, 2018

Asian History

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

Jihan Wu - September 27, 2018

What Others Are Reading

March 13th Stock Market Crash: Panic of 1907 Begins with Credit Crisis

American History History Bot - March 13, 2017

Strained credit and wild financial speculation lead to panic in an era of bold industrial expansion at the dawn of the American Century, in...

Otzi: The Iceman

Archaeology WH - May 29, 2017

Otzi, also known as Oetsi, Similaun Man, The Man from Hauslabjoch and Frozen Fritz, was discovered in 1991 frozen in a glacier near the...

Fort Necessity is a Flash-point of U.S. History

American History WH - July 5, 2017

Among the rolling Western Pennsylvania hills sits a small but very significant part of American History. Known as Fort Necessity, this tiny fortification was the...

The Aztecs: The Last Great Empire of Ancient America

Aztec History Tony Perry - July 30, 2017

The Aztecs were the last empire to flourish in Central America before the arrival of Hernan Cortes and the Spanish Conquistadores. The least known and...

Tatiana Nikolaievna

Russian History Anastasia Timofeeva - August 20, 2018

Eighteen months after the birth of Olga, the Imperial Household was en route to welcoming another addition to the family. By May, all of...

Medieval History

Medieval History

“Thorstein the Staff-Struck” Dialogue Summary and Analysis

WH - May 25, 2017

Bjarni, an important character from Pálsson’s “Thorstein the Staff-Struck,” has the unfortunate luck of having his dead servant Thord on his hands. When Bjarni...

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