World History

Easter Island Before the Europeans Arrived: The History of Rapa Nui...

Paul Cross - October 7, 2018

The history of Easter Island before the Europeans first visited there is much like the land itself: remote, difficult, and mysterious. The article “Easter Island...

Cleanliness and Sanitation in the Middle Ages

November 26, 2018

Federal Reserve System: United States Money Managers

August 21, 2017

Presidential Children – The Adams Family Children

April 8, 2019

The Complex Legacy of the Texas Revolution

May 27, 2017

Ancient History

Ancient Egypt

Religion and Spirituality of the Ancient Egyptians

Ancient Rome

Pliny, Tacitus, Josephus and Jesus: Why These Writers Don’t Prove Jesus...

Ancient Greece

Athenian Democracy: The Greek Origins of Rule by the People

American History

Italians in America – First Business Leaders

History Bot - July 25, 2017

Most immigrants from Italy arrived during the later decades of the 19th century and those of the early 20th century. The archive records at...

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority

July 26, 2017

Regime Change in Tripoli? Part 1

May 27, 2017

European History

UK/Irish History

The Statute of Westminster (1931): Canada’s “Declaration of Independence”

Kathy Warnes - October 14, 2018

It is very fitting, yet also odd, that our neighbo(u)r to the north has its own independence day in the same week as our...

Where is Arthur? Camlann and Beyond

May 28, 2017

The Terms and Conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919

July 31, 2017

Mary Fields

The Great American Plains WH - May 21, 2017

Mary Fields had at one time been a slave. But now, about 1894, she packed a gun and did not avoid a good ole...

Is There a President in the House? – Part 1

Most of our Presidents gained early political experience while serving in Congress. Of our 42 Presidents (remember, Cleveland served twice), all but 18 served...

Fascism Was Not Limited to Germany and Italy in the 1930s

European History Kathy Warnes - August 3, 2017

Fascist movements sprang up throughout Europe in the 1930s and were strong in not only Germany, Italy and Spain, but in both Allied and...

Eileen Welsome – The Plutonium Files

History Book Reviews History Bot - July 4, 2017

A remarkable book by Eileen Welsome on her investigation of U.S. radiation experiments on Americans during the Cold War period In 1987, Eileen Welsome, a...