General John Gordon."Slavery is only one of the minor issues and the cause of the war, the whole cause, on our part is the maintenance of the ...

An Italian Gastarbeiter family in 1962. Source: Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F013071-0001 / Wegmann, Ludwig / CC-BY-SA 3.0, available here.What was the ...

Concept and founding of the LRDGThe concept of the LRDG was born out of necessity. In 1940, the British Army faced the daunting task of navigating and ...

Although America’s history is rife with rags-to-riches stories, American Industrialist Andrew Carnegie is probably the best embodiment of the American ...

The moon eyed people were supposedly nocturnal and could not see well during the day, they also supposedly had pale skin due to their lack of exposure to ...

Rise to the PresidencyJohnson was born into poverty and did not have the opportunity to attend school. Despite this, he apprenticed as a tailor and ...

As the Second World War intensified, the Mediterranean became a critical theatre of operations for both the Axis and Allied powers. Control of the sea ...

Othniel Charles Marsh & Edward Drinker Cope.Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope: From friends to enemiesThe participants in this unusual ...

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, in 1862."When the dogmas of a sectional party...threatened to destroy the sovereign rights of the ...

Hiero of Syracuse calls Archimedes to fortify the city. By Sebastiano Ricci.The Context of the SiegeBy 213 BCE, the Second Punic War was raging, and Rome ...