History

The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest surviving literary work in the world. The epic poetr...

Explore the captivating contradictions of one of U.S. history’s most divisive figur...

World War 2 began on September 1st, 1939, and from its very first fiery shots, it dictate...

A great nation needs a great leader. Just like a ship needs a capable captain, ...

Abraham Lincoln was undeniably one of the most influential politicians in American histor...

THE STORIES THAT I WRITE AND TELL ARE ABOUT THE EXTRAORDINARY MEN OF SOG, MACVSOG, MILITA...

In 1804, President Jefferson asked two Virginians-Meriwether Lewis and William Clark-to l...

Plague has terrified and fascinated humanity for all of recorded history. Now, in the cur...

In AD 793, Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wa...

Nazca, once only an isolated settlement in the midst of the Peruvian desert, is today the...

The Prince has long been both praised and reviled for its message of moral relativism and...

Looking into the past, the Crusades seem incomprehensible. What combination of religious ...

C.F. McGlashan was the newspaper publisher of the local paper in Truckee, California, the...

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

In 1791, the Constitution was amended to include ten amendments, which are commonly refer...

In 1776, the thirteen American colonies, refusing to pay unjust taxes, declared their ind...

World War II reshaped the map of the world. As Europe exhausted itself in yet another war...

Historians have said that World War II was a continuation of World War I but with greate...

After WWII, Korea was divided in half at the 38th parallel. To the north were the Communi...

After WWII, Korea was divided in half at the 38th parallel. To the north were the Communi...

Recent events have made it clear that the Soviet Union is not a monolith; its a collectio...

Dan Lyons resigned as Dean of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington to become the fre...

Christmas 1941 came little more than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The shoc...

The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first—and perhaps most a...

Told for the first time, here is the story of a stray dog who eventually became affection...

Charles Darwin is arguably the most influential scientist of all time. His Origin of Spec...

In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devas...

This great question of Pearl Harbor -- what did we know and when did we know it? -- has b...

From the author of the captivating bestseller THE FIRST MAN IN ROME... the timeless sag...

Perhaps the most accurate story of LRRPs at warever to appear in print!When Frank Johnson...

In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRP—and he li...

In mid-1943 James Megellas, known as “Maggie” to his fellow paratroopers, joi...

For firefights in the swamps, ambushes in the jungle, or just facing the enemy dead-on, R...

No single figure in 20th century American history inspires such opposing opinions as J. E...

Explore the captivating history of ancient Greece!  The culture and events of G...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the kings of Israel and Judah, then pa...

Explore the captivating history of the Culper Ring!Spying and warfare have always gone ha...

During the Civil War, over 180,000 black men fought in volunteer units as part of the Uni...

Saber-toothed tigers were arguably the most fabled of all the Ice Age creatures. The fear...

After losing her husband, Elinore Pruitt washed clothes in Denver to support herself and ...

With this address, US President James Monroe set a precedent for the nation’s forei...

Einhard served Charlemagne, king and Holy Roman Emperor, for 23 years. From that experien...

Conspiracy of One created a media sensation when it was first published in 1990. The...

The world is filled with mysteries, and even in the modern age, much of the planet remai...

Though he couldn’t have known it, the various scholars and scientists that Napoleon...

Before the Vietnam War, most Americans would have been hard pressed to locate Vietnam on...

The Battle of Gettysburg is a vivid firsthand account of the most famous battle of the Ci...

In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic Wa...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s account of the first successful large-scale application of ...

Based on the true stories of the two US Navy Seals operating behind enemy lines in Vietna...