The Albigensian Crusade: How Rome Tried to Erase the Cathars
The Albigensian Crusade was launched in an Occitan region at peace and on the economic rise. The tolerant region…
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The Albigensian Crusade was launched in an Occitan region at peace and on the economic rise. The tolerant region…
The Sack of Rome in 1527, marks the tragic descent from a peak of Renaissance splendor to the chaos…
The Hundred Years’ War saw many great soldiers and commanders, but very few have received the same recognition and…
Colonial meeting houses, Native cultural sites, frontier forts, Spanish missions and civil rights landmarks are just some of the…
Considered the “cradle of civilization,” the Mediterranean region produced some of history’s most capable seafarers: the Phoenicians. Living in…

Simon de Montfort rose to power during a time of significant political transition in England. In the mid-13th century,…
French Revolution books, more than 200 years after the storming of the Bastille, continue to draw avid readers. Rarely…
Europe, 1618 — a continent fractured by religion, greed, and ambition, teetered on the brink of catastrophe. The Thirty…
The Continental Army started as a ragtag collection of farmers, craftsmen and frontiersmen fighting for freedom. But out of…
William Wallace was born in the midst of a crisis that would change Scotland forever. For centuries, the Scots had…