Charles River Editors

The KGB is one of the most famous abbreviations of the 20th century, and it has become sy...

While people might associate possession and exorcism with the past, particularly the medi...

Today, roses are a sign of love and luxury, but for over 30 years, they provided the symb...

One general tied to the Seleucid Empire was Artaxias, who founded the Artaxiad dynasty an...

Modern Ufology focuses on mysterious lights on Ceres or tales of alien abduction, but thi...

The outcome of the English Civil War was no doubt unthinkable to many across Europe befor...

There were approximately 1,500 Greek city-states (poleis) in the Classical era, and sacri...

While modern technology has helped astronomers view the furthest reaches of the Solar Sy...

The most important war of all for Texas came in the early 19th century, and the common s...

Edgar Allan Poe was one of America’s first native-born professional authors, but h...

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

World War I, also known in its time as the “Great War” or the “War to E...

By the turn of the 20th century, American entertainment was still preoccupied with Europe...

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

Gilgamesh, Hercules, Aeneas, and Lancelot are instantly recognized as mythological heroes...

The westward movement of Americans in the 19th century was one of the largest and most c...

In the over 100 years since it sank on its maiden voyage, the Titanic has been the subjec...

Given how far back the Egyptian civilization goes, it’s no surprise that Egypt is s...

Deep within the bayous and swamps of Louisiana resides a population descended from an ex...

By the start of the 15th century, ships were now much larger and able to support long di...

England has more often been faced with the claims of competing kings and queens than with...

At the end of 1776, the American war effort was on the verge of collapse, and despite Was...

One of the most famous people in the world came to tour the city of Paris for the first t...

Both Grant and Sherman shared the same theory of war: anything that might help the enemy...

Across the eastern Mediterranean there has been discovered a great number of objects whos...

The United Kingdom is an ancient land steeped in history and tradition, filled with prehi...

For the French, and those who study their history, Versailles is a symbol of, as Charles...

As the issue of slavery roiled the country, few people became as controversial or consequ...

The gradual collapse of the Roman Empire brought monumental changes to Europe and beyond...

By the mid-19th century, other European powers became interested not only in the explora...

Although cryptozoology is often scoffed at and widely considered a pseudoscience, one of...

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...