The Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties was a golden age of economic prosperity and liberal social change. Innovations in numerous industries revived a sluggish post-World War...
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Russian RevolutionThe Russian Revolution in 1917 was a moment in time when the will of the people put an end to a system of government that had been in place for centuries. The...
Easter Rising In the midst of World War I, the Easter Rising took place in Dublin and throughout Ireland in April, 1916. The revolutionary movement faced many problems from the...
Andrew JacksonOld Hickory. King Mob. The Peoples President. King Andrew I. The nicknames by which the seventh president is known reflect the different facets of his complicated...
Adolf HitlerThe most notorious man in history, Adolf Hitler, is best known for having perpetrated crimes against humanity over the six-year course of World War II. His brutal ex...
WaterlooThe Battle of Waterloo has become synonymous with the word "defeat" but who lost, and why was it important? In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte left the island of Elba, and in a...
Celtic Mythology The gifted W.B. Yeats wrote of his own people ..".even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is...
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin thought he would be a clergyman after an uneventful childhood, where he hated school but loved the natural world. All that would change when he was...
Leonardo da VinciCreativity is in our bones. It is found in our very DNA, something not known to Leonardo da Vinci or anyone else who lived in his day and time. All he did was t...
Marquis de LafayetteThe Marquis de Lafayette may be a name that sounds vaguely familiar. If you've studied even a little American history, you'll recall Lafayette as George Wash...
