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Monday, September 16, 2019

American History

The Charge of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg: Sacrifice of Regiment Helped Save Union at Key U.S. Civil War Battle

History Bot - September 14, 2019

Ancient Rome

Rome’s Third Servile War: One of the First Great Battles Against Slavery

Ancient History

Amazons – Who Were the Ancient Female Warriors?

Ancient Rome

Octavia, Wife of Nero: Seneca’s Tragedy – Roman Empress Octavia’s Marriage, Exile and Death on the Roman Stage

American History

John Brown’s Harpers Ferry Raid: Abolitionist Leader Tried to Start a Slave Rebellion in the South

History Book Reviews

The Loneliness of Alexander the Great

Cathy Anne Smith - July 24, 2018

Alexander the Great and the Loneliness of Power, by Ernst Badian, paints a picture of Alexander the Great that focuses not on his military...

A League of Nations, For Nations? Part 1

December 4, 2018

Prairie Dog Town

July 3, 2017

Corruption in the Post Civil War Grant Years

May 28, 2017

The Inventive Mind – the World’s Most Clever Innovations

September 2, 2018

Ancient History

Ancient History

Alexander the Great, and Greatness

Ancient History

The SATOR/ROTAS Square

Ancient History

Alexander Leaves India and Returns to Persia: Alexander the Great’s Army...

American History

American History

OSS Female Spies in WWII

History Bot - August 15, 2017

Women secretly served as couriers, code breakers, intelligence analysts and spies behind enemy lines for America's Office of Strategic Services. According to the National Women’s...

The Pilgrims of Thanksgiving

November 22, 2017

The First Transcontinental Railroad

November 11, 2018

European History

Ancient British History

Ethelbald: First Great King of Mercia

WH - May 29, 2017

So much has been said recently about Northumbria. Let us turn for awhile to the lands south of the Humber River: Southumbria, if you...

What the Romans Found: The Celts

May 28, 2017

The Plague and the Dance of Black Death in the Renaissance

June 6, 2017

The Slave Trade: Slave Ship Voyages to the West Indies

Caribbean History History Bot - September 12, 2018

Before the Middle Passage to the West Indies, the typical slave ship spent up to a year off the coast of Africa collecting slaves. A...

Measuring Time Through the Ages: Why Timelines Aren’t Always Straight

Ancient History History Bot - October 25, 2017

Time is measured by man against the heavens, with many adjustments. In recent years it is more accurately measured, making it almost an exact...

Medieval Porridge or Frumenty

Medieval History WH - June 7, 2017

Porridge, a centuries old staple food, was originally the only way to obtain nutrition from grain, but with the arrival of bread, it...

Bit Adini, the House of Eden

Ancient Near East Cathy Anne Smith - July 24, 2018

The eleventh century BCE was a time of political upheaval in the Ancient Near East. The Hittite Empire had collapsed and the Egyptians, Assyrians...

Russia

Russian History

The Maxim Gorky: Aviation’s Titanic

Anatoly Mikhailov - August 23, 2018

Russian History

Tatiana Nikolaievna

Anastasia Timofeeva - August 20, 2018

Russian History

Boris Berezovsky’s Fall from Grace in the Year 2000

Anatoly Mikhailov - August 21, 2018

Military

Military History

Spanish Civil War Crimes: Both Sides Were Guilty

WH - May 26, 2017

Military History

Mikhail Kalashnikov is Still a Big Gun in the Russian Arsenal

WH - June 3, 2017

Military History

Alexander vs Porus – a Different View

Cathy Anne Smith - August 7, 2018

Old West

This Wild Wild West

The Whipple Expedition to the Southwest

WH - May 21, 2017

This Wild Wild West

Wild Bunch – The Ice Wagon Affair

WH - May 21, 2017

This Wild Wild West

Wild West Women: Tabitha Brown – A Grandmother Goes West

WH - May 21, 2017

WW II

WW II History

Operation Mincemeat and the Man Who Never Was

WH - May 24, 2017

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

Swedish Neutrality in World War II: Fact or Fiction?

Robert McRoberts - July 29, 2018

Asia

Asian History

Joanna Lumley, Much Loved British Actress: Born in Kashmir, 1946

Robert McRoberts - March 14, 2018

Asian History

Heian Period (794-1185)

WH - August 31, 2018

Asian History

Early Life of Genghis Khan: Birthplace, Background and Biography

WH - August 18, 2018

What Others Are Reading

Cultural Treasures: Harman Fortified Church in Transylvania

European History Christopher Wunder - March 24, 2018

The second Saxon fortified church on my list is called Harman or Honigberg in German, meaning 'honey mountain'. The village is easily accessible by...

Fruitlands: A Transcendentalist “New Eden”

American History WH - May 22, 2017

Concord, Massachusetts, in the mid-1800’s, was a hot-bed of Transcendentalism. Borrowing ideas from Immanuel Kant, Samuel Coleridge, and even Eastern philosophies, transcendentalists believed that...

Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

American History History Bot - June 30, 2017

As an influential, powerful civil rights leader, Ms. Hamer lived a hard life. The racists mistreated and brutalized her, but she never lost her...

Dakini: Sensual Dancers of Divinity

Asian History History Bot - August 25, 2018

The dakini is one of many female divinities to be found within Buddhist thought. The dakini is particularly prevalent in Vajrayana Buddhism, which is...

Battle of Little Bighorn: 23 – Black Hills Gold Reaffirmed

American History Gail Bellenger - August 1, 2017

With the beginning of spring in 1875, the debate as to whether Custer’s gold discovery in the Black Hills amounted to anything or not...

Medieval History

Medieval History

The Life of Saint John of Beverley

WH - May 24, 2017

John of Beverley was an eighth-century clergyman who became a bishop in the year 705AD, at the height of the power of the medieval...

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