Northern Military Advantages in the Civil War
Although the Civil War was initially viewed by many Northern and Southern observers to be a short conflict, it rapidly devolved into four years of bloody battles. Lincoln’s original “police” action...
View Article123rd Machine Gun Battalion in the Meuse-Argonne
In the final weeks of World War I, the American 123rd Machine Gun Battalion helped defeat the stubborn German forces in the Meuse-Argonne Valley. On September 26, 1918, the 123rd Machine Gun Battalion,...
View ArticleWhy the United States Entered World War I
Three years after the outbreak of World War I, the U.S. declared war on Germany following growing indignation over unrestricted naval warfare. The United States entered World War One in April 1917. The...
View ArticleMcCarthy and Stalin – Political Brothers?
On the surface the politics of Joseph Stalin and Senator Joe McCarthy were diametrically opposed. Underneath, however, they were frighteningly similar. At first glance it does not seem that Joseph...
View ArticleMaximilien Robespierre (1758-1794)
Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre was born in Arras on the 6th May 1758. The son of a lawyer, he was educated in Paris and entered the same profession as his father. He was elected deputy of the...
View ArticleThe Babylonian Captivity: The Influence of King Nebuchadnezzar II on the...
King Nebuchadnezzar II conquered Jerusalem and forced the inhabitants into exile. Here, they were able to fill the gaps in their own tribal stories of the creation story. Nebuchadnezzar was the son of...
View ArticleSebastian Cabot, Questionable Explorer: Early Explorer of Newfoundland and...
The authenticity of some of his claims have been questioned by later historians but the name of Cabot still stands high in the annals of early exploration. Sebastian Cabot was a son of renowned...
View ArticleEmperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
As prince, king and finally emperor he brought his country out of the middle ages and into the 20th Century. He was born Prince Tafari Makonnen on July 17, 1891, in Harar, the son of Prince Makonnen...
View ArticleJames Brooke Rajah of Sarawak – Founder of the White Raj of Sarawak
For 100 Years the White Rajahs Ruled Sarawak. They prevented the natives from being exploited but in so doing caused them to fall behind the rest of the British Empire. For one hundred years the White...
View ArticleEliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson (1849-1896)
A ground breaker in her time, Eliza Nicholson was the first woman publisher of a daily newspaper in the Deep South. Eliza Nicholson was the first female publisher of a major American metropolitan daily...
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