Daniel Houle

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

The Cristero War in Mexico is the last great armed movement in a country that for a hund...

Along the sandy shores and ancient forests of crystal blue Lake Erie, a proud, brave, an...

Famine – one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse in the Book of Revelation &nda...

The Manhattan Project would ultimately yield the “Little Boy” and “Fat...

While many people are familiar with the Vandals’ sack of Rome, the collapse of the...

In response to Sioux raids along the Bozeman Trail, the United States Army closed the tr...

A generally accepted figure for the larger Stone Age featuring the first use of stone to...

The study of paleoanthropology is the branch of anthropology that examines the developmen...

James Meredith’s struggle to integrate the University of Mississippi in 1962 is sti...

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

The pyramids of Egypt are such recognizable symbols of antiquity that for millennia, peo...

As in many societies facing the social and political juggernaut of Roman occupation, the...

The 15th century was a pivotal era for Europe, during which it transitioned from a socia...

Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of ancient Egyptian civilization was its inception fr...

During the presidential campaign in 1864, the outcome of the Civil War was still very mu...

Even in the wake of Napoleon’s departure from the scene, the continental powers ha...

In 1964, the USS Maddox was an intelligence-gathering naval ship stationed off the coast...

The story of early Asian immigration to the United States is also one about race legisla...

Just over one week after the landings in Normandy, American troops took part in a massi...

During the first half of the 20th century, American crowds developed a fascination with ...

The United States and Canada today share the longest undefended border in the world, enc...

“The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, ...

Julius Caesar is still remembered for winning a civil war and helping bring about the end...

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

The Netherlands has had a complex and turbulent history involving the interplay of multip...

Naturally, as technological advances and the creation of flying aircraft became realitie...

In 1783, the last British troops left the American East Coast port cities of Savannah, C...

When the Nazis’ quest for a nuclear weapon began in earnest in 1939, no one really...

After he had finished off the Persian Empire, Alexander must have been glad to leave Pers...

If the world had a navel, it would be the Dead Sea, the lowest point on Earth where one c...

At one point in antiquity, the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the largest empire the world...

"They have soldiers. We only have arguments." – French Foreign Minister Theophile D...

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

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

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

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

There is extensive empirical literature about memorialization, but very little theory de...

At one point in antiquity, the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the largest empire the world...

On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress and asked the nation to &l...

“Shining shoes as a boy, shining on-screen as a star, shining even among the blindi...

There was no shortage of targets for thieves in the West, and some infamous criminals st...

For much of the 20th century, Latin American governments in large part lived under a sys...

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

The Mongols were pushed out of the region by the Poles and Lithuanians, who then occupied...

To the ancient Egyptians, the gods and goddesses were all around them and could be seen ...

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

The Biblical-era Kingdom of Moab was located primarily in modern Jordan, but we do not k...

Looting and the acquisition of plunder have long been crucial features of war. Removing ...

The fight for civil rights was at the forefront of inspirational, high-octane movements ...