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The Battle of Agincourt, 1415: Longbowmen, Bands of Brothers, and Henry V’s Triumph
Nov 27, 2025From Shakespeare's 'band of brothers' speech to its appearances in numerous films, Agincourt rightfully has a place among a handful of conflicts whose names are immediately recognized around the world...
Clarence Dillon: The Roaring 20s Wall Street Baron Who Wrote the Rules for Corporate Takeovers, Junk Bonds, and Bankruptcy
Nov 25, 2025J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Charles E. Mitchell are names that come to mind when thinking of the most prominent icons of wealth and influence during the Roaring Twenties. Yet the one figure ...
A Utah Indian Chief Controlled the 1800s Mountain West Through Slave Trading, Building Pioneer Trails, Horse Stealing, and Becoming Mormon
Nov 20, 2025The American Indian leader Wakara was among the most influential and feared men in the nineteenth-century American West. He and his pan-tribal cavalry of horse thieves and slave traders dominated the ...
Why Did Rome Fall? Wrong Question. How Did it Last 2,000 Years Despite Changing its Religion, Language, and Government?
Nov 18, 2025Rome began as a pagan, Latin-speaking city state in central Italy during the early Iron Age and ended as a Christian, Greek-speaking empire as the age of gunpowder dawned. Everything about it changed,...
The Real Deadwood: A Gold Rush Town Built in a War Zone but Obliterated in an Inferno
Nov 13, 2025Gunslinging, gold-panning, stagecoach robbing, whiskey guzzling – the myth and infamy of the American West is synonymous with its most famous town: Deadwood, South Dakota. The storied mining town spra...
America's Pacific Dawn: The Spanish-American War Ushered In Global Reach and Savage Conflict
Nov 11, 2025Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross, was in Havana in 1898, investigating the terrible conditions endured by Cubans whom the Spanish government had forced into concentration camps, where an est...
The Unhealed Wounds of WW2 POWs and Combat Veterans
Nov 06, 2025Nearly 16.4 million Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces in World War II, and for millions of survivors, the fighting left many of them physically and mentally broken for life. There was a 25% de...
Robert McNamara Thought Enough Data Could Win Any War. Instead, It Led America to the Vietnam Quagmire
Nov 04, 2025Robert S. McNamara, who was Secretary of Defense during JFK and LBJ’s administrations, and one of the chief architects of the Vietnam war, made a shocking confession in his 1995 memoir. He said “We we...
The Philistine Connection: Do the Roots of October 7 Go Back 3,000 Years?
Oct 30, 2025The October 7th attacks of Hamas on Israel were an unprecedented, surprise incursion by land, sea, and air that stunned the world and prompted Israel to declare war. The attacks, which included massac...
The Thucydides Trap: How A Rising Athens Made The Peloponnesian War Inevitable
Oct 28, 2025The Peloponnesian War is considered one of the most famous wars of the ancient world not only because it was a massive and devastating conflict that reshaped the Greek world, but also because its thor...