History

The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. This important document proclaimed to the world that the original 13 American colonies were free from British rule.

American politics was not always dominated by Conservative Republicans and Liberal Democrats. Not only were other political parties once active in the United States, but the ideologies of the two major parties were quite different than they are today.

The horrors of America’s Civil War broke the mind of a sensitive Union Army surgeon.

In warfare, innovation spurs victory. The Roman Maniple came to dominate the battlefields of antiquity through a unique fusion of individual savagery and the discipline of the phalanx.

Captain Roger Gallagher was a highwayman who harassed the British oppressors who occupied his country.

Ludwig II showed little interest in royal duties; his passion was building castles, an activity that bankrupted him.

In 1915, a Great Lakes passenger steamer flipped over and became a deadly shipwreck.

George Washington was a slave owner who famously freed his slaves in his will. For more than a hundred years afterward, African American men claimed to be his only surviving body servant. But were they truly his slaves?

A titanic work and an excellent reference source for the ships of the French royal navy, "French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786" could have used some additional detail for ship characteristics. It is a specialized tome, which is largely unnecessary for most readers.

This review will explain how this book is a brilliantly descriptive, detailed, and well written exposé on the disastrous French 1746 New Brunswick Expedition, which provides an irreplaceable view on operations and leadership of the French Navy.

A free Black man in New York State was kidnapped and sold into slavery.

In 1942, men dressed as Nazi soldiers staged a pretend attack on the Canadian city.

A common war tactic in dealing with a stubborn community that refused to surrender was to starve its inhabitants into submission.

Kidnapped by the Shawnee during the French and Indian War, courageous pioneer woman Mary Draper Ingles escaped captivity in Kentucky and walked over 500 miles up the Ohio and New Rivers to her home in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Some cities were once inhabited but due to natural calamities, wars and climate change, they were abandoned many years ago. This article lists some of the legendary lost cities of India.

Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American U.S. Senator. He represented Mississippi during the 1870s. He filled a Senate seat previously held by Jefferson Davis. The former president of the Confederacy.

Opening as a speakeasy during Prohibition, the Stork Club was the place for society’s elites to kick back and have a party.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was a pioneering astrophysicist and one of the preeminent women astronomers of all time. During the 1920s she derived the cosmic abundance of the elements from stellar spectra and demonstrated for the first time that hydrogen and helium were the most abundant elements.

The American explorer Robert Peary said he had found a new continent in the Arctic.

William Penn was a seventeenth-century English Quaker, an advocate of civil and religious liberty, and founder of the colony of Pennsylvania. Under his guidance, the colony of Pennsylvania became prosperous and the city of Philadelphia was laid out and developed.

The important events in the life of the explorer Christopher Columbus are given in a timeline. The events are illustrated with United States Postage Stamps and Coins.

They were women pilots who went into battle using plywood biplanes. They faced frostbite and bullets when flying. On the ground, they faced sexual harassment and skepticism. Known as the Night Witches, they were some of the most feared pilots of the Russian Air Force during World War II.

Though Christopher Columbus was not the first European to discover North America, he was the first to map parts of two new continents and begin the process of Spanish colonization of the New World.

It is estimated that 90 percent of Americans have a microwave oven. Percy Spencer was an engineer testing a military gadget called the magnetron. During the test, Spencer put his hand in his pocket and realized his snack had melted. Spencer then used the magnetron with other snack items.

Jonathan R. Dull's book on the French navy is mistitled and is really more about the Seven Years' War written around the objectives and needs of the French Navy—much different than what it advertises, but it is very well done.

Wilhelm Röntgen was a German physicist and mechanical engineer. He created and then detected electromagnetic radiation on November 8, 1895. This was done in a way to produce images using X-rays. He was awarded the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physics for his achievements.

During World War II, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a sniper with the Soviet Red Army. She accumulated over 300 confirmed kills. Pavlichenko has the distinction of being the most lethal female sniper in military history.

Rebecca Lee Crumpler was an American author and physician. In 1864, after completing her course of studies at the New England Female Medical College, she became the first African-American female to be a doctor of medicine.

Did Adolf Hitler really commit suicide in the Führerbunker during the last days of WWII?

Agent 355 was the code name for a female spy who served during the Revolutionary War. She was one of the first people to conduct spy operations on behalf of the Colonial Army. Her true identity remains a mystery.

At the end of World War Two, many Nazi war criminals had the help of the Catholic Church in getting out of Europe.

John Logie Baird was a Scottish electrical engineer and inventor. On January 26, 1926, he demonstrated his newest invention. It was the world's first working television broadcast system. Nobody at that time realized the impact television would have on society.

John Chapman was better known as Johnny Appleseed. He is recognized as an American pioneer nurseryman. He is responsible for introducing apple trees in various places around the United States as well as Canada.

Sybil Ludington was 16 when she rode her horse sidesaddle all night to warn local townspeople of British forces attacking Danbury, Connecticut. She rode twice as far as Paul Revere. Sybil Ludington is considered a true heroine of the Revolutionary War.

This article will take a look at the Atomic Age in America, including how it started and how it shaped the country's culture.

During the 1982 Falklands War, an Argentinean cruiser was sunk by a British submarine. Some have suggested the action was a war crime.

This article explores life in Poteau, Oklahoma, during the late 1800s.

This article tells a tale of some of the first white settlers in the Indigenous American territory near the base of Cavanal Hill in Poteau.

Strange things happen in the world of medicine. This article discusses four historical medical mysteries that have baffled doctors and the public alike.

Mary Edwards Walker was a surgeon during the Civil War. Because of her dedication to treating the wounded on the battlefield, she was awarded the medal of honor.

From the 1880s to the 1920s, investigative journalists worked to expose corruption, deceit, racism, and inequality. They were given the unflattering nickname of “muckrakers.”

For centuries, inventors and charlatans have made claims to have created a machine that never stops.

Madam C. J. Walker was the first female in the United States to become a self-made millionaire. She developed and marketed cosmetics, hair care products, and more.

In the 1840s, Ada Lovelace wrote an algorithm for a computing machine known as the analytical engine. She is considered the world's first computer programmer. Learn about her life, career, death, and legacy here.

A grim discovery in 1942 in the Himalayas has led investigators on a hunt to explain how hundreds of skeletons ended up in and around a small lake.

Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man to fight as a soldier during the Revolutionary War. Her service made her the only female to receive a full military pension for her service in the war.

A massive, almost forgotten, wildfire struck northeastern Wisconsin on the same day as the Great Chicago fire.

Ivan VI became Emperor of All Russia when he was just two months old; his reign was short and tragic.

When Detroit prohibited liquor sales a group of vicious criminals stepped in to satisfy demand.

A surprisingly large number of people wanted a brilliant Canadian engineer dead.