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Was Harry Truman really our poorest president or simply a man up at 2 a.m. struggling with financial
From the taking of the holy city of Jerusalem in the 7th century AD by Caliph Umar, to the collapse
More Americans have peanut allergies today than at any point in history. Why? In 2000, the American
Appleton Oaksmith was a swashbuckling Civil War-era sea captain whose life intersected with some of
For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. But it has been received by different cultures
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From George Washington’s powdered pigtail to John Quincy Adams’ bushy side-whiskers and from James P
This is the question that historians have argued since the end of World War Two. How much did an ave
Iberia was one of three crucial theatres of the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome. Hannibal
Contrary to popular belief, Robin Hood may not have been the merry medieval outlaw of Sherwood Fores
The use of horses by humans began roughly 5,500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of the Pontic-
Charles Cowlam’s career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con a
Soviet espionage existed in the United States since the U.S.S.R.’s founding and continued until its
In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steera
Beneath the trench warfare of World War One existed an entirely separate war underground: battles in
In the months leading up to D-Day, Eisenhower’s attention was in relentless demand, whether he was n
On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. T
When global supply chains were shut down in 2020 and messily rebooted after COVID lockdowns ceased,
