Steve Knupp

Naval combat underwent a significant metamorphosis during World War II. Nazi Germany and ...

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

Hollywood has never lacked leading men who could captivate viewers with dramatic performa...

“Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.” - Talleyrand While Mette...

When trains were introduced as a popular means of transportation, some of the first trac...

Much has been written about the Space Race, which is still taught across America today, ...

The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople played a decisive role in fostering the Renaissan...

On July 12, 1588, the legendary Spanish Armada headed for the English Channel. The Spani...

Altogether, the Battle of Stalingrad was the deadliest battle in the history of warfare, ...

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on t...

One of the most important and memorable events of the United States’ westward push ...

The term Moor is a historical rather than an ethnic name. It is an invention of European...

Though the French would be decisively defeated soon after the Nazi invasion of Belgium a...

Rome faced many formidable enemies over the course of nearly 1,000 years, but perhaps no...

Through most of history, people have been closely tied to nature, hunting in forests an...

Thinking of Spain as a modern nation state today distorts the complicated reality that th...

When most people think of “ancient American civilizations,” the Aztec, Maya,...

The borderlands of the paranormal include some bizarre stories. However, none are more st...

The Third Reich's Luftwaffe began World War II with significant advantages over other Eur...

Holy relics can be found in many different religions, whether Christian, pagan, Hindu, or...

The outcome of the English Civil War was no doubt unthinkable to many across Europe befor...

Conspiracy theories, and particularly the belief that elements of the world are secretly ...

Given the RAF’s importance, it should come as no surprise that some of the pilots r...

Before the mid-19th century, European intervention in much of tropical Africa was extreme...

When people think about unidentified flying objects (UFOs), they tend to think of flying ...