Janet Ford takes a light-hearted look at inns and alehouses in 17th and 18th century Britain by reviewing the diaries of three travellers who experienced
In this article, Mary Miles tells us the story of Berchtesgaden, the Allied attempt to bomb a site rumored to house Hitler towards the end
Kevin K. O’Neill tells us about the life of Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, a man born in Greece, but who later lived in Ireland and the
Rebecca Fachner starts a series of articles on World War I by considering how close family ties between many European rulers may have contributed to
The trial of the century? In this article Edward Vinski looks at a famous 1925 trial between religion and science. And how later Hollywood and
John Adams was one of the Founding Fathers of the USA. After US independence was achieved, he served in a number of positions, including as
Ben Parten takes us back to the 1900 World’s Fair and considers how W.E.B. Du Bois made attempts to overcome the Color Line and continued
Our image of the week looks at a scene of anarchy in an eighteenth-century asylum. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, life was extremely hard
Steve Strathmann considers what the three presidents most closely associated with World War II did during that other great war of the twentieth century –
William Bodkin tells us the fascinating story of William Thornton, the man who wanted to resurrect George Washington after his death. Humanity has often