Ancient

• Why Was Hannibal a Great General?
• History of Solar Eclipses
• New Dead Sea Scrolls Cave Found
• Smuggling a Rare Artifact Out of an Israeli Prison
• The Ancient Lost City of Columbia
• Oldest Known Copy of Leviticus Discovered
• Biblical History in the British Museum
• Telemachus: One Man Empties the Roman Coliseum 
• A History of the Land and Archaeology of Gezer
• Has Hannibal’s Route Across the Alps Been Found?
• Polycarp: The Man the Flames Would Not Touch
• The Seal of the Biblical King Hezekiah Found
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American

Colonization

• Marcus Whitman: Oregon’s Missionary
• The Walls of Charleston
• A Colonial Trading Ship
• John Winthrop: Lawful Liberties Such as Christ Allows
• Catching a Runaway with Poetry
• Road Building in Early America
• The Wreck of Columbus’s Ship, the Santa Maria, May Have Been Found
• Wedding of Pocahontas
• The Friendship of Salem
• Captain John Smith
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War for Independence

• Why is North Carolina “First in Freedom”?
• What Happened at the Battle of Concord?
• Top 10 Best Revolutionary War Battlefields
• One Soldier’s Experience of the Battle of Camden
• What a Revolutionary War Battle was Like
• How Charles Pinckney Honored His Father
• The Spring Hill Redoubt 
• Walking Cowpens Battlefield
• Exploring King’s Mountain Battlefield
• Camden Battlefield
• Why the Americans Fought at Concord
• James Monroe at the Battle of Trenton
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War for 1812

• The Only Active US Navy Ship to Sink an Enemy is 218 Years Old
• Politics of the War of 1812
• “Irreligion of Our Land” in 1812
• The Lost 13th Amendment
• Death of Sir Isaac Brock
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Other

• Norman Borlaug: An Agricultural Pioneer
• Happy 150th Birthday Nebraska
• The Mysterious Submarine on the Coast of Panama
• The Rise and Fall of the Army Surplus Store
• Rediscovering the Stories of Runaway Slaves in the Great Dismal Swamp
• James Thornwell: Our Danger and Our Duty
• Lowell Mason
• The Old Sheldon Church
• The Grave of John C. Calhoun
• Ann Pamela Cunningham
• The Sword of South Carolina
• The South Carolina Governor Mansion
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For WWI and WWII posts, see below.

Civil War

• “If Slavery is a Divine Institute, I Believe We Will Be Successful”
• How the South Tried to Get Delaware to Seceede
• Methods and Science of Civil War Photography
• Governor Aiken’s Bookcases 
• The Horse Stables at the Aiken-Rhett House
• George Dixon’s Gold Coin
• McLeod Plantation
• Why did the H. L. Hunley Sink?
• The H. L. Hunley
• The Pioneer
• The Damage of Fort Pulaski
• Fort Pulaski’s Drawbridge
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Civil War 150th

• Aftermath
• Lincoln Assassinated
• Lee's Surrender at Appomattox
• Battle of Appomattox Court House
• Breakthrough at Petersburg
• Battle of Five Forks
• Battle of Fort Stedman
• Battle of Bentonville – Union Victory
• Battle of Bentonville – Confederate Attack
• Battle of Averasboro

View all posts on our Civil War 150th Blog.

Exploration

• John Williams: The Martyr Missionary of Polynesia
• Franklin’s Lost Ship, the HMS Terror Found
• How Airplanes Would Make War Impossible
• A Map Drawn by Ernest Shackleton
• Did Marco Polo Discover Alaska?
• One of the Ships from Franklin Lost Expedition Has Been Found
• Discovery of Machu Picchu
• Ship Trapped in Antarctic Ice
• Scott’s Antarctic Dog
• Summiting Everest – 60 Years Ago Today
• Shackleton’s Ad – Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey
• Mutiny on the Bounty – 224 Years Ago Today
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European History

Middle Ages

• World’s Largest Medieval Reenactment – Battle of Grunwald
• Tower at Crecy Battlefield
• Trepanation: Why Our Ancestors Drilled Holes in Each Other’s Skulls
• The 16 Year Old General
• Can You Decipher the Inscription on this Medieval Sword?
• The Battle of Crecy and the Providence of God
• Chain, Chest and Curse: Combating Book Theft in Medieval Times
• The Ghost of King John: Importance of the Magna Charta
• Europe Tour: Salzburg and the History of the Catholic Church
• How to Capture a Castle
• Francis Drake’s Prayer: Fact or Fiction?
• Peter Bartholomew – Life and Death of a Fanatical Fraud
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Reformation

• Nicholas Ridley: Play the Man
• How Joshua Janavel put Thousands to Flight
• Hugh Latimer: A Candle That Will Never Go Out
• How Geneva Changed the World
• John Bunyan: Venture All for God
• Martin Luther: The 500th Anniversary
• Gaspard de Coligny – the Huguenot Admiral
• John Knox: Give Me Scotland Ere I Die
• John Knox: The Father of Presbyterianism
• Thomas Bilney: The Flame Shall Not Kindle Upon Thee
• Oliver Cromwell: From Geneva to England
• One Hundred And Seventy Books Remain
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World War I

• The Great War in Four Minutes
• The Battle of Jutland: May 31 – June 1, 1916
• The Ruins of Belgium after the Great War
• Were the British “Lions Led by Donkeys?”
• Battle of the Somme – 99 Years Ago
• A WWI Gas Attack
• Soldier’s Gear from 1066 to 2014
• Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
• HMS Invincible – World War I Battlecruiser
• Slideshow of Photos of the Great War
• A World War I Battlefield
• Artifacts from World War I are still in the Ice of the Italian Alps
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World War II

• Death Camps in America? Lessons from Dachau
• Was it a War Crime to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
• Tunnel Dug by Jews to Escape from the Nazis Found
• Rangers, Lead The Way! – How the Rangers at Pointe Du Hoc Turned Disaster into Victory during the D-Day Invasion
• Did Soviet Agents Help Plan Pearl Harbor?
• Remembering the Battle of Britain
• Rings Stolen from Holocaust Victims
• How British POWs used Monopoly to Escape the Germans
• Wreckage of World War II
• Bombardment of Fort Stevens
• Japan’s Surrender in World War II
• Eyewitness of a Kamikaze Attack
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Other

• The Myth of Mother Teresa’s Christian Heroism
• What Made Napoleon a Great Leader?
• French Charge the English Squares: Waterloo 200th
• Battle of Waterloo 200th Reenactment
• Europe Tour: Opening Message
• The State of Christianity in 1736
• An Account of Boxing Day in 1731
• Violin of the Titanic’s Bandmaster Found
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