Charles River Editors

Mankind's obsession with felines is an enigma in and of itself. Unlike dogs, famously kn...

Overall, Tulsa in 1921 was considered a modern, vibrant city. What had fueled this remark...

It’s quite possible that none of what Caesar did would’ve happened without th...

Four days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hitler declared war on America, almost casua...

Outbreaks of disease, much like wars, inevitably produce a series of public figures who ...

On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress and asked the nation to &l...

The plague, for all its horrors, became a known quantity that moved through a predictable...

Today, the world is in the midst of the transformative and ever-developing Digital Age, ...

What would you get if you mixed Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen King? The a...

The Holy Roman Empire was a fascinating institution as well as one of the most perplexin...

Among America’s most infamous “Public Enemies,” perhaps the most uniqu...

Although Australia was actually colonized by the forced dispossession of the indigenous ...

Artillery and handgonnes had been known since the early 14th century but only became effe...

The first known influenza pandemic may have occurred in China in 6000 BCE, and the renown...

There was no shortage of targets for thieves in the West, and some infamous criminals st...

When people think of ancient Greece, images of philosophers such as Plato or Socrates oft...

As the oft-repeated and invariably accurate pearl of wisdom goes, a dog truly is man's b...

After two world wars that had decimated the continent of Europe in little more than thir...

“No one does more harm in the Church than he who has the title or rank of holiness...

Hinduism as a religion spans more than 3,000 years, and now it includes nearly 1 billion ...

Modern perceptions of ancient Greece are almost always based on Athens and Sparta, which...

The Punic Wars spanned more than a century, brought the loss of approximately 400,000 li...

However diverse Sicily might be, it is also paradoxically considered to be an emblem of ...

Though the importance of hats is easy to overlook, it was deadly serious in more ways tha...

Hispaniola entered the European record in 1492 when Christopher Columbus made landfall o...

To date, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, and one of the poorest ...

Among those who championed free markets, perhaps no economist has written so forcefully ...

The short war between a confederation of Native American tribes under Little Turtle&rsqu...

Riots are an aspect of American history that do not show up much in history textbooks, e...

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

As Earth entered the Cambrian Period, there was a relatively sudden increase in life for...

While Nat Turner’s rebellion remains famous today, a far larger uprising took plac...

The ancient Gutians are probably not one of the groups that come to most people’s ...

The island of Hispaniola is the second largest island in the Antilles chain behind Cuba,...

One of the largest islands in the Caribbean and also home to the Arawak and Tainos. Jama...

Among all the Native American tribes, the Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans learned the h...

The creative impetus of organized society in the Fertile Crescent initially came from so...

In the wake of taking Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire would spend the next few centur...

On paper, the extraordinarily unorthodox ideology spouted by Heaven's Gate ranks near th...

When people look up into the night sky, the stars seem fixed and immutable, as unchangin...

About 2,000 years ago, a prophet named John wrote a book about his strange visions while...

The three modern Baltic states - Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - may occupy small tracts...

In some ways, Project Gemini is a neglected part of the US space program. Sandwiched bet...

Riots are an aspect of American history that do not show up much in history textbooks, e...

Franz Kafka was among the most unique authors in the early 20th century, and as a Jewish ...

A history of Burgundy could more accurately be described as the "history of the Burgundi...

The successful Apollo 11 mission was certainly an astonishing technological triumph, but...

The Cristero War in Mexico is the last great armed movement in a country that for a hund...

Along the sandy shores and ancient forests of crystal blue Lake Erie, a proud, brave, an...

While the Moors have always been associated with Spain due to their lengthy stay on the ...