The Death of General Albert Sidney Johnston

10 years ago

An interview with NPS ranger Chris Mekow about the death of Albert Sidney Johnston at the Battle of Shiloh.

Thomas Paine, a Christian Theonomist?

10 years ago

Many people believe that the founders of the United States were deist rather than Christian. Very few of the founders would fall…

A World War I Battlefield

10 years ago

This photography was taken during the 1918 Battle of Zonnebeke, Belgium. It shows the infantry in their trenches, while planes…

Artifacts from World War I are still in the Ice of the Italian Alps

10 years ago

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/10562017/Melting-glaciers-in-northern-Italy-reveal-corpses-of-WW1-soldiers.html

Thomas Jefferson on Idleness

10 years ago

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses…

Soapy Smith and Denver’s City Hall War

10 years ago

The king of the Old West's con men was Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith. He made his money by running "sure-thing" con…

The Tomb of an Unknown Pharaoh Discovered

10 years ago

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/28715

The Friendship of Salem

10 years ago

Come with us aboard the Friendship in Salem harbor, a replica of a 1797 American East Indiaman, and discuss the…

Olumo Rock, Abeokuta, Nigeria

10 years ago

We recently returned from a trip to Nigeria. While there we visited Olumo Rock in Abeokuta. In the 1830s the rock…

In the Year 2014…

10 years ago

  "In the year A.D. 2014 journalists will be writing on the centenary of the Great War—that is, if our…

Petersburg Entrenchments

10 years ago

As the siege of Petersburg, Virginia wound down in the winter of 1864, the fighting slowed down and the soldiers…