Bill Hare

After being forced out of Rhodes by the Ottomans in the early 16th century, the Knights H...

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

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

Movie stars are revered for their ability to captivate audiences, and Hollywood began to...

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

Of all the authors and poets American schoolchildren may be exposed to over the course o...

“We are so superior to the Mexicans in race, in organization, in discipline, in mor...

"I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me, but I beat the bastard...

When another invading Muslim army took control of what is now Syria, Israel, and Northern...

“If you do not know where you're going, you should know where you come from.&rdquo...

More often than not, the Romani are branded by even those who fancy themselves liberals ...

In the 1920s, the burgeoning movie industry was starting to come into its own, and virtua...

The 19th century saw the rise of one of the largest, most powerful empires of the modern ...

For nearly two centuries, the Jews and Greeks of the region were able to live in relative...

The 28-year period from 1933-1961, bracketed on one end by Hitler’s rise to power i...

As one of America’s oldest and most beloved sports, baseball has long been touted a...

Werewolves have long been a staple of popular culture. In the 19th century and 20th cen...

In the 1600s, cotton and silk fabrics that bore colorful and exotic printed patterns, kn...

Although Apollo 11’s successful mission to the Moon is seen as the culmination of t...

“The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose o...

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

“Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their o...

"The Work of a Nation. The Center of Intelligence." When people think about the Second W...

As archaeologists quickly learned, there are numerous temples dedicated to Quetzalcoatl ...

Several years before Mariner 9’s successful orbiting mission, NASA had begun design...

By the time weapons industrialist Samuel Colt was born, the Lewis and Clark Expedition se...

Jean Antoinette Poussin, the woman who would become known as Madame de Pompadour, was a ...

The man known to most of the world as Emperor Hirohito ruled during some of the most tumu...

Space exploration was always an expensive business, and throughout NASA’s history,...

Given his legacy, many Americans today believe Jackie Robinson was the first black man t...

At the forefront of the Three Kingdoms was one of ancient China’s most famous battl...

In time, all the hard work led to the growth of the OSS into an organization with over 13...

On September 25, 1877, on a rain-soaked, muddy field in Kagoshima, Japan, a small group o...

One of the reasons for the prevalence of Tlaloc in the Valley of Mexico is that in the se...

International trade in the ancient world was a more intricate and far-reaching system th...

Around the time that the Civil War ended in 1865, the open ranges of south Texas were ful...

On August 28, 1914, a British naval force of 31 destroyers, two light cruisers, and a sub...

The annals of world history are filled with intriguing, although often outlandish storie...

As archaeologists quickly learned, there are numerous temples dedicated to gods all acro...

On October 21, 1600, two massive Japanese armies, totaling an estimated 200,000 soldiers...

Even at a distance, the acrid stench of asphalt and sulfur singes the hairs of people&rsq...

Before there was Charles Ponzi, there was Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith I...

Although Apollo 11’s successful mission to the Moon is seen as the culmination of ...

When they entered the negotiations in Berlin in 1884, the French were established in the...

In 1913, Mary Phagan, a young Georgia factory girl and the daughter of tenant farmers, wa...

In the span of scarcely more than a half century, the West developed from a handful of sc...

He was a pioneering film director who had 518 films to his credit. His work spanned the s...

Despite a general dearth of African American names rising to musical prominence during th...

While it’s easily forgotten today, during the early 20th century, various European ...

“The automobile has come to stay. But when a man has no business, it is a rather e...