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Israel’s Day of Independence, Yom Ha’atzmaut, is celebrated on the fifth day...

Throughout the history of warfare, the practice of placing blame on innocent parties in ...

Along with Egypt, the cultural and geographic region known as Mesopotamia was home to so...

After a 1960 Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia, bus segregation was made ill...

Some historians have called the Seven Years’ War the first true world war, and the...

Less than two weeks after the creation of Israel, the state’s leader, David Ben-Gu...

When England’s King Edward IV fell ill at Easter 1483 after coming back from a fis...

When scholars study the history of the ancient Near East, several wars that had extremel...

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

Operation Barbarossa was the most fateful decision of World War II, and when it gave the ...

For the people of the ancient Mediterranean and beyond, the city of Rome had been a symb...

Spies are a feature of countless works of fiction in which they often discover secrets o...

Despite their own cultural differences, the nations that comprised the Iroquois Confeder...

For much of American history, women were second-class citizens in the sense they could n...

Samoa is a group of about 20 islands in the South Pacific Ocean, totaling slightly over 1...

The history of Ukraine is a fascinating story of how cultures, political systems, religi...

Alfred Thayer Mahan is arguably the most influential military strategist in American hist...

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

The early history of Earth covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries, and...

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

India has been the location of many different empires throughout its long history. The I...

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

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

Raymond C. Kelly, an anthropologist and ethnologist who has written extensively on societ...

As Union commander George McClellan moved the Army of the Potomac up the Peninsula in ea...

The Incas had consolidated their empire only a century before Pizarro and his Spanish co...

Among the most interesting of the prehistoric eras is the Permian age, the most extreme ...

Oliver Cromwell is one of the most important men in England’s history, but everyth...

The name, "Patagonia" comes from an observation made by Ferdinand Magellan, who visited ...

During the Battle of the Bulge, the Allies became understandably nervous, and Hitler hop...

In the process of becoming one of the most famous Americans of her era, Susan B. Anthony...

On April 27, 1898 six American ships of the line, led by the Olympia with Commodore Geor...

Carthage was one of the great ancient civilizations, and at its peak, the wealthy Cartha...

for many walks of life, including commercial, diplomatic, academic, philosophical, and h...

Today the Salem Witch Trials are often remembered as being a relic of a superstitious pa...

In the late 15th century, Western Europe entered the Renaissance, which is often credite...

"I'm as pure as the driven slush." – Tallulah Bankhead Exhibitionism and narcissis...

Joseph Smith’s death was one of the catalysts for the Mormons’ great migratio...

Ultimately, while the institution of slavery existed, the principle of protecting indivi...

A sizeable body of literature is available on the east-west pathways of the American con...

Many battles fought in antiquity remain famous thousands of years later, such as Maratho...

In ancient Egypt, the underpinning concept in law, in theory, was that rich and poor cit...

Though history is usually written by the victors, the lack of a particularly strong writ...

In the list of popular American geological oddities and attractions, one sizeable phenom...

On October 12, 1492, one of the most important “first contacts” of the moder...

Hollywood has never lacked leading men who could captivate viewers with dramatic performa...

The history of printing was for ancient Asia an advancement in culture and communicatio...

Stand Watie’s life connects the traditional Cherokee homeland in Tennessee and Ge...

“Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.” - Talleyrand While Mette...

The name "Iroquois", like many Native American tribal names, is not a name the people kn...