Elite Units of Antiquity: The Forces That Built and Defended Empires
Reading Time: 37 minutes From Greece to China, from Rome to Persia, empires relied on a few thousand elite troops to fight and…
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Reading Time: 37 minutes Remember, Remember: Guy Fawkes and the 1605 Gunpowder Plot
Reading Time: 16 minutes Guy Fawkes and the 1605 Gunpowder Plot opens with a cold November night and a dark cellar under the…
The Albigensian Crusade: How Rome Tried to Erase the Cathars
Reading Time: 27 minutes The Albigensian Crusade was launched in an Occitan region at peace and on the economic rise. The tolerant region…
Rome in Ruins: The Sack of Rome in 1527
Reading Time: 24 minutes The Sack of Rome in 1527, marks the tragic descent from a peak of Renaissance splendor to the chaos…
From Soldier to Legend: The Legacy of Bertrand Du Guesclin
Reading Time: 28 minutes The Hundred Years’ War saw many great soldiers and commanders, but very few have received the same recognition and…
The Most Historic Building in Every U.S. State
Reading Time: 22 minutes Colonial meeting houses, Native cultural sites, frontier forts, Spanish missions and civil rights landmarks are just some of the…
Seafaring Innovators: How the Phoenicians Connected the Ancient World
Reading Time: 18 minutes Considered the “cradle of civilization,” the Mediterranean region produced some of history’s most capable seafarers: the Phoenicians. Living in…
Simon de Montfort and the Birth of England’s First Parliament
Reading Time: 17 minutes Simon de Montfort rose to power during a time of significant political transition in England. In the mid-13th century,…
25+ of the Best Books on the French Revolution
Reading Time: 13 minutes French Revolution books, more than 200 years after the storming of the Bastille, continue to draw avid readers. Rarely…
Kings, Cardinals, and Chaos: Inside the Thirty Years’ War
Reading Time: 17 minutes Europe, 1618 — a continent fractured by religion, greed, and ambition, teetered on the brink of catastrophe. The Thirty…
