Alumni of the University of Virginia enjoy pointing out that while Thomas Jefferson’s tombstone declares his foundation of that university as his thir...

Joseph Wright, a native of the West Riding of Yorkshire, started working in a factory at the age of 6. He did not learn to read until he was 15, inspi...

In the last days of 1358, thousands of French villagers across northern France revolted against a faltering regime, from Normandy in the west, to Pica...

Go into an American bookshop, and you’ll get the impression that the only two most important events that ever happened in all of human history were th...

Sometimes Americans are pretty sure that they know a few things about the British soldiers who fought in the American Revolution. A list of them proba...

Historians are always interested in how things change over time, and it helps for the survival of the profession that most things do. But there are ce...

Denali, the mountain formerly sometimes known (but not by Alaskans) as Mt. McKinley, is one of the most impressive mountains in the entire world. It i...

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Carrie Nation was, of course, a prohibitionist. But so was Leo Tolstoy, Czar Nicholas II, and Vladimir Lenin; in fact, the first nation to prohibit th...

For many colleges, this is the first week of class. And that means for both new teachers and new students, it's the beginning of one of three weeks th...