The Most Significant Historical Event in all 50 States
Reading Time: 37 minutes The most significant historical event for each state is the moment that had the greatest impact within and beyond…
Reading Time: 37 minutes 
Reading Time: 37 minutes Ranavalona the Cruel: The Mad Queen of Madagascar
Reading Time: 17 minutes Ranavalona I is one of the most notorious monarchs of the 19th century, her name now a byword for…
Why the St. Brice’s Day Massacre Still Haunts English History
Reading Time: 18 minutes The St. Brice’s Day Massacre of the Danes in 1002 was one of the most shocking moments in early…
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…
The Nat Turner Revolt and the Struggle for Black Freedom
Reading Time: 12 minutes Nat Turner was a slave preacher who believed God called him and who led a slave rebellion in Southampton…
Vlad Tepes: Madman or Mastermind of Medieval Terror
Reading Time: 23 minutes Was Vlad Tepes a bloodthirsty monster, a power-crazed madman, or a master of psychological warfare? To his enemies he was…
How John Paul Jones Became an Naval Icon
Reading Time: 12 minutes “I have not yet begun to fight!” Letting these immortal words ring out above the roar of cannons and…
Queen Boudica’s Last Stand: The Battle for Britannia
Reading Time: 14 minutes The Warrior Queen and the Fate of a Nation Set in Roman Britain around the mid-1st century CE, this…
The Diadochi: How Alexander’s Generals Built New Empires from His Ashes
Reading Time: 21 minutes Alexander the Great died unexpectedly in Babylon in 323 BCE with no clear successor. His empire, which had expanded…
The House of Medici: Banking, Power, and the Birth of the Renaissance
Reading Time: 13 minutes Powerful, influential, and quietly transformative: few families have had such a long and sweeping impact on human history as…
