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Subscribe Sign In | Subscribe Ad-Free Latest News Home Recommended Friday, August 14 Thursday, August 13 Wednesday, August 12 Tuesday, August 11 Monday, August 10 Sunday, August 9 Saturday, August 8 Friday, August 7 Set this view as default? Yes No Set this view as default? Yes No When Poland Saved Europe From Communism Arthur Chrenkoff, The Daily Chrenk Lincoln Thought He’d Lose Civil-War Election Calvin Schermerhorn, The Conversation Was Mary Blandy ’Lovesick’ or Cold-Blooded Murderer? Murderpedia 1751 Mary Blandy Poisons Father With Arsenic American Democracy Under Fire S. Mettler & R.C. Lieberman, Foreign Affairs The Real Story of King Macbeth Biography 1057 King MacBeth Dies A Cathedral 600 Years in the Making SciHi Blog 1880 Cologne Cathedral Opens How U.S. and Soviets Carved Up Korea David E. 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Roberts & J. Smith, American Heritage 1995 Baseball Legend Mickey Mantle Dies Francis Marion: The Swamp Fox Christopher Miskimon, Warfare History Network 1781 Revolution: Battle at Parker’s Ferry 1776: Politics of Parallel Reality S. Adam Seagrave, RealClearPublicAffairs When Poland Saved Europe From Communism Arthur Chrenkoff, The Daily Chrenk A hundred years ago this week, a series of biggest battles that Europe were to witness between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the... Read More Lincoln Thought He’d Lose Civil-War Election Calvin Schermerhorn, The Conversation The outlook was not promising in 1864 for President Abraham Lincoln’s reelection. Hundreds of thousands of Americans had been killed,... Read More Was Mary Blandy ’Lovesick’ or Cold-Blooded Murderer? Murderpedia Mary Blandy (1720 – April 6, 1752) was a female murderer in 18th century England. In 1751, she poisoned her father, Francis Blandy,... Read More American Democracy Under Fire S. Mettler & R.C. Lieberman, Foreign Affairs When the U.S. president used his power to target immigrants, the press, and his political opponents, the sheer overreach of his actions... Read More The Real Story of King Macbeth Biography Considered by many historians as the last of the Gaelic kings of Scotland, MacBeth has become less of a historical figure and more a... Read More A Cathedral 600 Years in the Making SciHi Blog On August 14, 1880, after more than 600 years the construction of the Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, was... Read More How U.S. and Soviets Carved Up Korea David E. Mark, ADST With the end of World War II in August 1945, there was still no consensus on Korea’s fate among Allied leaders. Many Koreans on the peninsula... Read More ’Foolish Club’ That Conquered Mighty NFL Mickey Herskowitz, PFW In January of 1959, Lamar Hunt, a young and earnest Dallas oilman, decided that what the country needed was a second professional football... Read More Continuing Effects of Partition of India Alex Shashkevich, Stanford University A recent escalation in tensions between India and Pakistan has put a spotlight on the violent history of the two countries’... Read More Maybe Pat Buchanan Was Right Francis P. Sempa, RealClearHistory On Aug. 17, 1992, Patrick J. Buchanan addressed the Republican National Convention in Houston after losing the party’s nomination to... Read More History Live What Became of ’The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife?’ Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic At a September 2012 academic conference in Rome, Karen King, a historian at Harvard Divinity School, made a major announcement. She had... Read More Rising Immunity Slowing COVID-19 Spread Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review The large number of people already infected with the coronavirus in the US has begun to act as a brake on the spread of the disease in... Read More How to Break a ’Tie’ in Presidential Election Joseph Micallef, Military.com The purpose of elections is to determine an outcome, to designate a winner and, by extension, one or more losers. The mechanics of elections,... Read More Is There a Temple Under That Fort? Laura Geggel, Live Science The remains of "monumental temples" dating to the Iron Age and medieval buildings may be hidden underground at Navan Fort, an archaeological... Read More Book Reviews Early Christian Views on the Afterlife Rachel Ashcroft, History Today Three times I rushed toward her, desperate to hold her / three times she fluttered through my fingers, sifting away / like a shadow,... Read More Renaissance Wasn’t All Beauty and Light John T. Scott, Los Angeles Review of Books AS CATHERINE FLETCHER NOTES at the outset of her new book, The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West,... Read More Born to a Concubine, Sultan Key Figure to Ottoman Empire History Book Club Despite its towering influence and centrality to the rise of our modern world, the Ottoman Empire’s history has for centuries been... Read More WW II Happened Because Hitler Wanted It To Fredrik Logevall, New York Times It’s a remarkable thing about World War II in Europe that this enormously destructive conflagration, which killed tens of millions and... Read More American Civics Sponsored Curation Powered By: Essential Reading Martin Luther King, Jr., the American Revolutionaries, and the Politics of Parallel Reality Throughout the Stamp Act crisis of the... Engaging The 1619 Project Is America fundamentally defined by slavery... In the News Peter Wood & Pete Peterson, Washington Times Thought Control Overtakes Colleges Jayne Orenstein, Washington Post How My Great-Grandmother Lost Her U.S. Citizenship Multimedia Exploring the Join, or Die Cartoon Podcast: Merrill Eisenhower Atwater on...