Charles River Editors

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

The concept of death can be viewed from different perspectives. In general terms, it can...

Long before it was known as Afghanistan, and even longer before it acquired its current r...

“Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't run...

Today every American is taught about watershed moments in the history of minorities&rsqu...

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

By mid-1943, British leaders, particularly Churchill, believed that while the defeat of ...

While airplanes had never before appeared above the field of war, other aerial vehicles ...

By the end of the 19th century, the Russian Empire seemed to be at the zenith of its pow...

Tens of millions died during World War II as the warring powers raced to create the best ...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Most scientists believe the evolution of humans has a history nearly as long as life its...

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...