Bill Caufield

Spartacus is the world’s most famous slave, and one of the most notorious figures ...

When the Colosseum was built in the late 1st century A.D., the Romans, a people known for...

The ambitious and fearless emperors that built the legendary Roman Empire from scratch, t...

The Weimar Republic has become a byword for a failed, tragic, political experiment. The o...

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

On his deathbed, some historians claim that when he was pressed to name a successor, Ale...

The successful Apollo 11 mission was certainly an astonishing technological triumph, but ...

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

To most people in the West, particularly the youth, the mere mention of Japan immediately...

During the several centuries that ancient Egypt stood as one of the greatest, if not the ...

Eastern Christians did not acknowledge the Pope's supremacy, and many Catholics felt that...

For decades, parodies featuring ominous, mysterious cults have been a favorite gag in pop...

On July 23, 1812, he launched his army across the border, despite the protestations of ma...

The Middle Ages have long been remembered for armored knights battling on horseback and a...

The Gilded Age and the dawn of the 20th century are often remembered as an era full of m...

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

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

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, when Western Europe was go...

Emerging from France's catastrophic 1940 defeat like a bedraggled and rather sinister pho...

Today the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that cu...

In addition to the wheelbarrow, the seismograph, the waterwheel, deep drilling, suspensi...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

It’s easy to forget how young Italy was when Benito Mussolini was born on July 29,...

If trench warfare was an inevitability during the war, it is only because the events lead...

By the end of D-Day, the Allies had managed to successfully land 170,000 men, including ...

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

Europe’s attempts to appease Hitler, most notably at Munich in 1938, failed, as Naz...

Though history is usually written by the victors, the lack of a particularly strong writi...

One of the best known of the six nations is the Seneca, and arguably the most famous Sene...

In the warm predawn darkness of June 22, 1941, 3 million men waited along a front hundre...

The waters of the Pacific Ocean – stretching deep blue under the tropical sun, or ...

Before the Second World War, military conflicts were fought under orthodox conditions, us...

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

The 50 years following the assassination of Severus Alexander on March 19, 235 CE has bee...

Possibly the most important man of antiquity, and even all of history, was Julius Caesar....

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

The Germans produced cutting edge aerial technology during World War I, along with revolu...