Charles River Editors

Among all the Native American tribes, the Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans learned the hard way that the warriors of the Apache were perhaps...

The creative impetus of organized society in the Fertile Crescent initially came from southern Mesopotamia, where the Sumerians introduced w...

When people look up into the night sky, the stars seem fixed and immutable, as unchanging as the darkness of space itself, but the truth is ...

Mankind's obsession with felines is an enigma in and of itself. Unlike dogs, famously known as man's most excitable, trustworthy, and loyal ...

Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginning. Societies and individuals have struggled to make ...

In the time period between the fall of Rome and the spread of the Renaissance across the European continent, many of today’s European n...

 “Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.” – Mad Anthony Wayne The American Revolution is replete with seminal ...

“If I were white, I could capture the world.” – Dorothy Dandridge The bright summer sun shined blissfully on a secluded va...

Carl Gustav Jung, the man who created analytical psychology both as a concept and as a practice, was a complicated person. He is also very d...

Throughout history, there have been men of war and men of peace, but few have actually had a war named after them. One of them was Pontiac, a...

Aside from George Washington, many Americans are likely able to name just as many foreign generals on the rebel side as American generals. Wh...

A pack of men in sharp, tailored suits and dark sunglasses strut down the street. Their eyes are shielded, but the icy scowl on their faces i...

“Little by little, the bird makes its nest.” – Old Haitian Creole ProverbVibrant, up-tempo vocals and exquisitely soulful h...

The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered...

“Had I just 10,000 Cossacks, I would have conquered the whole world.” – Napoleon BonaparteThe history of Ukraine is a fasci...

The early history of our planet covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries and even millennia become virtually meaningless. Ins...

Among all the various figures in 19th century America who left controversial legacies, it is hard to find one as influential as Joseph Smith...

t all began on Memorial Day, May 31, 1921. Around or after 4:00 p.m. that day, a clerk at Renberg’s clothing store on the first floor o...

"I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.” – Richard PettyA person may not know anything about baseball, but...

The lackluster Allied showing on Sicily and the escape of most of the island's garrison encouraged Hitler to alter his plans and defend Italy...

The American Revolution is replete with seminal moments that every American learns in school, from the “shot heard ‘round the wo...

Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaining eternal glory in battle, but of all the conqueror...

From running guns to white-collar crimes in cyberspace and illegal seafood, the Triads, the mafia of China, are potent figures in the world o...

The new United States was faced with a fundamental problem: to expand, it had to settle lands to the west of the Appalachian Mountains, ceded...

It’s quite possible that none of what Caesar did would’ve happened without the template for such actions being set by Lucius Corn...

Overall, Tulsa in 1921 was considered a modern, vibrant city. What had fueled this remarkable growth was oil, specifically the discovery of t...

Four days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hitler declared war on America, almost casually and without seeming to consider the consequences...

Outbreaks of disease, much like wars, inevitably produce a series of public figures who serve as emblematic heroes or villains of the era an...

After D-Day had all but sealed the Allied victory, Stalin’s Red Army became more aggressive in retaking land formerly held by Germany....

He was the only sitting member of the House of Representatives elected President to date, but he served only about half a year in the office....

Many of the first artists in the West were assigned to exploration and geological parties, working as archivists and obedient to demands of c...

The Apollo space program is the most famous and celebrated in American history, but the first successful landing of men on the Moon during A...

According to some historians, the success ancient Rome's "Five Good Emperors" had in centralizing the empire's administration, while undoubte...

The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered...

Many of the first artists in the West were assigned to exploration and geological parties, working as archivists and obedient to demands of ...

By the dawn of the 17th century, Portuguese influence in Africa fell into decline, and the occasions of European contact with Ethiopia became...

World War I, also known in its time as the “Great War” or the “War to End all Wars,” was an unprecedented holocaust i...

The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered...

Human beings seem to have a particular fascination for microbiological threats. They are invisible, unpredictable and mysterious, and it is ...

Early societies were aware of fossils, but they had no conception of just how old they were; the ancient Chinese, for example, classified ma...

Before the Mongols rode across the steppes of Asia and Eastern Europe, the Cumans were a major military and cultural force that monarchs fro...

Due to constant warfare on the borders and attempts to defend positions against various groups, Roman soldiers came into contact with foreign...

While he remains far less known than Hannibal, Publius Cornelius Scipio, the man who has become known to history as Scipio Africanus, is wide...

In the wake of the Roman Empire’s collapse, Italy found itself fractured, and nearly 1,000 years after Rome lost its grip in the late ...

In 323 BCE, Alexander the Great was on top of the world. Never a man to sit on his hands or rest upon his laurels, Alexander began planning h...

At one point in antiquity, the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the largest empire the world had ever seen, but aside from its role in the Greco...

Americans had few things to celebrate during the War of 1812, and fighting on the frontier against the British and their native allies didn&...

"They have soldiers. We only have arguments." – French Foreign Minister Theophile DelcasseNear the end of the 19th century, Otto von Bi...

It would not be a stretch to say that for a very tiny geographical territory (just 20,747 square kilometers), the Basque Country has inspired...

The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered...