Charles River Editors

The Underground Railroad is one of the most taught topics to young schoolchildren, and e...

For hundreds of years, the Anglo-Saxons – who had been harassing the Saxon Shore a...

Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battl...

By 1180, Saladin had consolidated his power in both Egypt and Syria, but he still could ...

Although it ended over 550 years ago, the Hundred Years’ War still looms large in ...

The battle for Berlin would technically begin on April 16, 1945, and though it ended in ...

The Hawaiian kingdom existed for about a century, from the early 1790s to 1893, starting...

In Germany, the most threatening and caustic radio personality was Mildred Gillars, know...

Just over one week after the landings in Normandy, American troops took part in a massi...

While D-Day is one of the most famous events of the war, it is widely overlooked that ab...

During the first half of the 20th century, American crowds developed a fascination with ...

The United States and Canada today share the longest undefended border in the world, enc...

some historians have aligned the term Slav as deriving from descriptions of slaves: &ldq...

“The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, ...

The relationship between Scotland and England has always been rocky. For most of their h...

Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early 2nd century CE, he decided to s...

The Gaza Strip is one of the most controversial hotbeds of conflict in the 21st century,...

The Wild West made legends out of many men and women through the embellishment of their ...

The fight for civil rights was at the forefront of inspirational, high-octane movements ...

Indulgence is at the heart of modern perceptions of eating and drinking for the ancient ...

In the time period between the fall of Rome and the spread of the Renaissance across the ...

While the Battle of the Bulge is the most famous fighting in that theater after D-Day, t...

After finishing with 3% of the presidential vote in 1904, Eugene V. Debs helped organize...

While it has historically been the Aztecs who were viewed as a militaristic civilization...

Before any type of unified political entity named Israel existed, the Jewish groups whos...

In the 19th century, the young United States was exposed to the profound changes that hi...

Cave painting falls under the heading of “parietal art,” a term used to note...

Athletics in Central and North American societies go much further back than most people ...

Indigenous groups settling in Mesoamerica had different languages, political and social ...

The people that came to be known as Germans originally came from Scandinavia and were ma...

It has been famously pointed out that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman,...

During the period after the collapse of the Roman Empire and the establishment of mediev...

The immense difficulties Sicily's rugged terrain caused to the Allied forces, and the su...

The early 1st millennium BCE was a time of great change and turmoil in the Near East and...

During the first half of the 1st millennium CE, an empire arose in Persia that extended ...

The fighting in North Africa during World War II is commonly overlooked, aside from the f...

Naturally, when the history of medieval England is discussed, the Angles and Saxons are ...

Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battl...

Soon after dawn on July 1, 1916, British and Commonwealth troops climbed out of damp, mu...

During the 12th century, the people of Ireland came under the sway of the English, who h...

The need to eat and drink is a biological necessity for everyone, but along with that, f...

Bombs have been around for centuries. The military units called “Grenadiers”...

Rome's complex relationship with animals goes right back to its foundation myth, and eve...

As labor unions and movements began to form and coalesce in the 19th century, the tension...

As settlers continued to encroach further west, the Shawnee, who were attempting to put ...

It has been famously pointed out that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman,...

The modern world has the ancient Romans to thank for the origins of many modern technolo...

Although it ended over 550 years ago, the Hundred Years’ War still looms large in ...

The Jacobites conjure up many images to 21st century Britons, including romantic heroism...

The Gepids were a Germanic tribe often overshadowed by the Huns because they shared roug...