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Did Haiti’s First and Last King Squander the Revolution or Succeed in Underappreciated Ways?
Mar 13, 2025Slave, revolutionary, king, Henry Christophe was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. Born to an enslaved mother on the Caribbean island of Grenada, Christophe first fought to overthrow th...
What Ancient Greeks and Victorian Explorers Thought Was at the North Pole
Mar 11, 2025The North Pole looms large in our collective psyche—the ultimate Otherland in a world mapped and traversed. It is the center of our planet’s rotation, and its sub-zero temperatures and strange year of...
Nothing Healed America’s Wounds After the Civil War Like Baseball
Mar 06, 2025The nineteenth century was a time of rapid growth and development for the game of “base ball,” and players George Wright and Albert Spalding were right in the thick of it. These two young men, the fir...
How an 1870 Murder Created San Francisco
Mar 04, 2025Shortly before dusk on November 3, 1870, just as the ferryboat El Capitan was pulling away from its slip into San Francisco Bay, a woman clad in black emerged from the shadows and strode across the cr...
Failed Futures: If Alexander The Great Hadn’t Died, He Might Have Conquered Europe, Circumnavigated Africa, and Built His Own Silk Road
Feb 27, 2025And Alexander wept, seeing as he had no more worlds to conquer. That’s a quote from Hans Gruber in Die Hard, which is a very convoluted paraphrase from Plutarch’s essay collection Moralia. There’s ple...
Why the Anabasis is the Second-Most Influential Greek Epic (After Homer’s Works)
Feb 25, 2025Imagine being stranded thousands of miles deep in enemy territory with 10,000 soldiers, no allies, no clear way home, and the only means of escape was by foot. This was the predicament faced by Xenoph...
The American Revolution Would Have Been Lost Without a Ragtag Fleet of Thousands of Privateers
Feb 20, 2025Privateers were a cross between an enlisted sailor and an outright pirate. But they were crucial in winning the Revolutionary War. As John Lehman, former secretary of the navy under President Ronald R...
Did Lincoln Save Global Democracy or Undermine It Using Wartime Powers?
Feb 18, 2025Did Abraham Lincoln preserve democracy during the Civil War, or did he endanger it in the process? To explore this paradox, we’re joined by renowned historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo, author ...
The 1541 Spanish Expedition Down the Amazon to Find the Imaginary “El Dorado” and Valley of Cinnamon
Feb 13, 2025As Spanish conquistators slowly moved through Latin America, they encountered levels of wealth that were unimaginable. Most famously, Incan Emperor Atahualpa was captured by Francisco Pizarro and paid...
Everyday Life for the 500K German POWs House in America During World War Two
Feb 11, 2025During World War II, approximately half a million German prisoners of war were held in the United States, housed in 700 camps spread across the country, from Florida to Maine. These POWs were treated ...