May is a beautiful month. Green grass, dogwood blossoms of pink and white, tulips and daffodils and bleeding hearts and ...

On Memorial Day 2025, we remember the ultimate sacrifice of William Peter Johnson and other Kentucky-Ohio Militia and U.S.

Between the 17th and 19th centuries, enslaved Africans and African Americans in British North America and the United States staged hundreds of revolts. Fed by a longing for freedom and ...

The 19th century got off to a fairly good start for Napoleon Bonaparte. Victory over the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo led to a peace deal with Emperor Francis II, and by 1802 France had ...

I'm very slow to the news that the MFA Houston opened a new temporary exhibition at the beginning of this year dedicated to ...

In 2023, Vyacheslav Kovalskiy, a 58-year-old Ukrainian civilian-turned-sniper, set a new world record for the longest ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

[Editor's note: This is an article from Century Ireland, a fortnightly online newspaper, written from the perspective of a journalist 100 years ago, based on news reports of the time.] ...

While Alice may be reflecting specifically on her experiences with books designed for young readers, her question evokes a widespread fascination in nineteenth-century society with book illustrations ...

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The Napoleonic, Crimean and Boer Wars, the Indian campaigns followed by the First World War and ensuing major 20 th century British armed conflicts (18 ... medal is scarcer than an artillery medal and ...