Daniel Houle

Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginnin...

Hispaniola entered the European record in 1492 when Christopher Columbus made landfall o...

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

One of the largest islands in the Caribbean and also home to the Arawak and Tainos. Jama...

About 2,000 years ago, a prophet named John wrote a book about his strange visions while...

Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaini...

On paper, the extraordinarily unorthodox ideology spouted by Heaven's Gate ranks near th...

The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenou...

Human beings seem to have a particular fascination for microbiological threats. They are...

The African slave trade is a complex and deeply divisive subject that has had a tendency ...

The British were only too aware of the dangers and potential of the Nazi rockets because...

Over the years, Wall Street has been equally glamorized and demonized for what it repres...

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

The Pleistocene spans a period from around 2.5 mya to just over 12,000 years ago, and it...

The split between the two forms of Islam was already in the process of forming upon the d...

The Korean War is often labeled “the forgotten war,” and though it has recei...

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

In 1291, three cantons around Lake Lucerne—Schwyz, Uri, and Unterwalden—form...

Most Americans know that slavery is a central part of the nation’s history, but th...

Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early 2nd century CE, he decided to s...

The technology that culminated in the Transcontinental Railroad’s completion change...

When the Spaniards "discovered" Yucatan, they thought it was an island. Although they lat...

It is difficult to ignore the effortless cool of a saber-toothed tiger. The fanged feline...

Four days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hitler declared war on America, almost casua...

It is rare to find a single battle that is truly decisive in shaping the course of subse...

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

Like the shinobi, more commonly known as the ninja, the assassin is yet another fabled f...

As Sicily fell and the Allies prepared to press on, Italy’s fascist dictator, Beni...

Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battl...

“Scotch-Irish” is an American term that became popular in the latter 1800s, r...

Otto von Bismarck, the leading German statesman of the 19th century, once joked, “T...

Mankind's obsession with felines is an enigma in and of itself. Unlike dogs, famously kn...

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

Even after the British took control of Egypt, knowledge about the Nile remained sparse, m...

The Apollo space program is the most famous and celebrated in American history, but the ...

By the dawn of the 17th century, Portuguese influence in Africa fell into decline, and th...

It was a frosty, wintry September morning in 2012 when 11-year-old Yevgeny “Zhenya&...

Hinduism as a religion spans more than 3,000 years, and now it includes nearly 1 billion ...

The Punic Wars spanned more than a century, brought the loss of approximately 400,000 li...

To date, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, and one of the poorest ...

The short war between a confederation of Native American tribes under Little Turtle&rsqu...

Riots are an aspect of American history that do not show up much in history textbooks, e...

While Nat Turner’s rebellion remains famous today, a far larger uprising took plac...

The ancient Gutians are probably not one of the groups that come to most people’s ...

The island of Hispaniola is the second largest island in the Antilles chain behind Cuba,...

Among all the Native American tribes, the Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans learned the h...

The creative impetus of organized society in the Fertile Crescent initially came from so...

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

In some ways, Project Gemini is a neglected part of the US space program. Sandwiched bet...

Riots are an aspect of American history that do not show up much in history textbooks, e...