Beyond Joan of Arc and Agincourt: How the 100 Years War Crushed Medieval Europe and Launched its Global Order

Reverse Ellis Island: American Migrants Who Fought for Mussolini and Built Stalin’s USSR

Don’t Use Rome as a Model of Why Societies Collapse; Use Crime Syndicates and Somalia Instead

A Union General Found a Loophole in the Fugitive Slave Act, Causing 1 Million Slaves to Flee North

The Civil War’s Brutal Finale: A War of Attrition as Terrible as WW2-Pacific and the Napoleonic Wars

Camp David Looks Like a 1970s Lakeside Retreat. Why is it the Site of the World’s Biggest Political Summits?

How British Scientists' Self-Experiments on Underwater Rebreathing Created D-Day Submarine Tech (And Nearly Killed Them in the Process)

Over 200,000 Allied Troops Tried and Failed to Crush the Soviet Revolution After World War One

How the U.S. Occupation of Japan After WW2 Forged the Most Durable Peace of the 20th Century

Homer Couldn't Have Written the Iliad, But He Probably Dictated it Word for Word

Depression-Era Planners Thought They’d End Poverty with Public Housing. Instead, They Created the Projects

The Alabaman Jacksonians Who Rejected the Confederacy and Marched with Sherman to the Sea

Frederick Douglass’s Private Writings on Abraham Lincoln, His Strong Critiques and Stronger Praise

The Industrial Revolution Was Supposed to Lead to Unlimited Free Time But Only Gave Us Smartphones and Endless Dopamine

James Cook Mapped the Globe Before Dying At the Hands of Hawaiians Who Once Worshipped Him

American Anarchists: The Original Domestic Extremists

100 Years Before Ford v. Ferrari, a Horse Breeder Revolutionized Thoroughbred Racing Through a Similar Obsession With Progress

Western Rome Fell Due to Germanic Immigration, Mass Inflation, and a Bloated Bureaucracy

Why the Atomic Bombing of Japan is as Justified in 2025 as it was in 1945

Surviving the Siege of Leningrad with Sawdust Bread and Iron Determination