Charles River Editors

Conspiracy theories, and particularly the belief that elements of the world are secretly ...

The United States has never had a shortage of cults based on religious teachings and cha...

By the close of 1864, Abraham Lincoln had been reelected, the Union army had taken Nashv...

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

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, notwithstanding its merits as a feat of exploration, was ...

Over the course of its history, England has engaged in an uncountable number of battles, ...

The Transcontinental Railroad, laid across the United States during the 1860s, remains th...

One overlooked figure in the Punic Wars is Hamilcar Barca, who is now best remembered fo...

The massively popular 1990 novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton and its subsequent mo...

During the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500-1200 BCE, the Near East was a time and place ...

When the Late Bronze Age system of the Near East collapsed around the year 1200 BCE, the...

There is no doubt that the alphabets and forms of writing employed by most European langu...

The tank was first developed by the British and French during World War I as a means to ...

The Byzantine Empire existed for over a thousand years, with a history spanning from the...

People have always been fascinated with the hidden, the mysterious, and the unexplained....

Trade was able to increase in Europe around the world due to more effective ships being ...

When Israel captured East Jerusalem during the Six Day War in 1967, it established Jewis...

That Jesus of Nazareth (ca. 4 BC-30 CE) was crucified is the closest to a historical fac...

Thinking of Spain as a modern nation state today distorts the complicated reality that t...

When people think about the Second World War, they seldom think in terms of silence and s...

When people think of the British Royal family, and more specifically where they live, th...

The Celts are one of the most well-known groups in Europe and one of the least understood...

Muslim relics have become sought after relatively recently, since in the tradition of Is...

Prussian leaders, especially Otto von Bismarck, the chancellor and advisor to Prussia&rs...

The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren&rsqu...

Cola di Rienzo was a man whose life and actions have reverberated down the centuries, as...

People have always been fascinated with the hidden, the mysterious, and the unexplained....

Many members of British society viewed war as a sport, a lethal one admittedly, but one ...

That Jesus of Nazareth (ca. 4 BC-30 CE) was crucified is the closest to a historical fac...

It can be argued that Roman culture was, indeed, Graeco-Roman rather than Roman. It was t...

Nearly 50 years after Napoleon met his Waterloo, generals across the West continued to st...

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

Over 450 years after his reign, Henry VIII is still the most famous and recognizable Kin...

Perhaps it should also not be surprising that the themes found in contemporary conspirac...

The Louisiana Purchase encompassed all or part of 15 current U.S. states and two Canadia...

At first, airplane improvements occurred in an ad hoc, almost accidental manner during Wo...

All Americans are familiar with the “day that will live in infamy.” At 9:30 ...

In the late 19th century, Indian Territory became part of the new State of Oklahoma and ...

People have always been fascinated with the hidden, the mysterious, and the unexplained. ...

After the successful amphibious invasion on D-Day in June 1944, the Allies began racing e...

In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the succes...

The pages of world history textbooks contain a litany of “lost” empires and ...

In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the succe...

By the time the Pleistocene Epoch ended around 12,000 years ago, Homo sapiens had become...

The first specimen of megamouth shark (megachasma pelagios) was discovered on November 1...

Despite the fact some Neolithic communities grew to considerable sizes, they’re ty...

The massively popular 1990 novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton and its subsequent mo...

By the end of the Byzantine Empire’s existence, the old age had weakened both the ...

When people think about unidentified flying objects (UFOs), they tend to think of flying...

Although the Declaration of Independence is now considered one of the most important pol...