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Did the Trojan War really happen?
The foundation of Western literature can be traced back to Ancient Greek epic. The Homeric works known as The Iliad and The Odyssey are among the most well known works of literature in the western canon. They tell the story of the Trojan War, a ten year siege of a city called Troy by the Greeks. Read more...
How did ancient Professional Armies develop?
Warfare has been a constant throughout human history and conflict can certainly be traced back to our hominid ancestors in our evolutionary past. While technology today is often used as the distinguishing characteristic of warfare, the development of the professional army, that is fulltime soldiers and formations of a standing army, was also an important factor in making warfare an affair conducted throughout the year and allowed the establishment of large-scale states and empires to be possible. Read more...
Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist
Featured Booklist Creating a Top Ten List for the Gilded Age/Progressive Era is challenging. There are an extraordinary number of outstanding books on this period. These books are a selection of our favorites. Read more...
Why Was Vicksburg “The Gibraltar of the Confederacy?”
As the calendar flipped from June to July in 1863 Gettysburg, a small market town founded in the soft, rolling hills of south central Pennsylvania on Samuel Gettys farm half a century before, was unknown to most Americans. Four days later, on July 4, it had become "The Most Famous Small Town in America," as boosters would come to call it. Read more...
How did Medicine develop in the Ancient World?
As the calendar flipped from June to July in 1863 Gettysburg, a small market town founded in the soft, rolling hills of south central Pennsylvania on Samuel Gettys farm half a century before, was unknown to most Americans. Four days later, on July 4, it had become "The Most Famous Small Town in America," as boosters would come to call it. Read more...
Causes of World War II Top Ten Booklist
The second world war was arguably the most catastrophic war in human history. The origins of the second world war in Europe are complex and controversial. The following article is a list of ten books that provide different perspectives on the root causes of the second world. Read more...
How Did the German Military Develop Blitzkrieg?
The early German victories in Poland, Norway, France, the Low Countries, the Balkans, North Africa, and Russia form an impressive list of military triumphs. What was more, these triumphs were accomplished with great speed and fairly modest cost to the Germans. Indeed, these victories were so striking that they gave rise to the myth of German military supremacy—a myth that has persisted to this day. Read more...
Interviews
These are our interviews with historians discussing their new books.
- Interview:Voodoo, Kidnapping and Race in New Orleans during Reconstruction: Interview with Michael A. Ross
- Interview:The History of Music Piracy: Interview with Alex Sayf Cummings
- Interview:The History of Doctors Without Borders: Interview with Renée Fox
- Interview:Re-evaluating the Albany Civil Rights Movement: Interview with Lee Formwalt
- Interview:Pigs, Parks, and Power in the Antebellum City: Interview with Catherine McNeur
- Interview:Lincoln's Biggest Bet: Interview with Todd Brewster
- Interview:African American Soldiers During the Civil War: Interview with Author Bob Luke
- Angels of the Underground: Interview with Theresa Kaminski
- The Conspiracy of Free Trade: Interview with Marc-William Palen
- Hodges' Scout: Interview with Len Travers
- Shantytown, USA: Interview with Lisa Goff
- Engineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Jr.
- Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers and Christianity: Interview with Sam Haselby
- The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Interview with Terri Halperin
- Fate of the Revolution: Interview with Lorri Glover
- Privateering during the War of 1812: Interview with Faye M. Kert
- American Surveillance: Interview with Anthony Gregory
- Primed for Violence in Interwar Poland: Interview with Paul Brykczynski
- Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara
- American Girls in Red Russia: Interview with Julia Mickenberg
- Make It Rain: Interview with Kristine C. Harper
- The Cold War, Sexuality, and American Medicine: Interview with Carolyn Herbst Lewis
- Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. Cayleff
Booklists
Includes both Expert and User created Top Ten History Booklists.
- Top Ten Books on Napoleon Bonaparte
- Top Ten Books on Los Angeles History
- Top Ten Books on the History of Reconstruction
- Top Ten Books on the Bubonic Plague
- Top Ten Books on The Medici Family during the Renaissance
- Top Ten Books on Julius Caesar
- Top Ten Books from the Oxford Battle Series
- Top Ten Booklist on Joseph Stalin
- Great Gifts for History Lovers 2018
- Top Ten History of Voting Rights Booklist
- New Kingdom Ancient Egypt Top Ten Booklist
- Ancient Egypt’s Third Intermediate and Late Periods Top Ten Booklist
- Top Ten War Books that were turned into Movies
- Great Gifts for History Lovers 2017
- Ten Essential Books Pertaining to the Holocaust
Articles
Articles are wiki pages with history essays written by our experts and your contributions.
- Why did the United States start the Mexican American War
- What Caused The Economic Panic Of 1837
- Why did Andrew Jackson want to destroy the Bank of the United States
- Why did the United States begin directly electing Senators in 1913
- How did Mussolini Rise to Power as the Dictator of Italy
- Why did Germany lose the Battle of Stalingrad
- What were Joseph Stalin's goals as World War Two ended
- How historically accurate is the Gladiator
- How Historically Accurate is season 1 of Versailles
- What Role Did the Canaanites Play in the Bronze Age Near East
- What Are the Origins of the Germanic Tribes
- How did William the Conqueror and the Normans win at the Battle of Hastings in 1066
- How Did the God Baal Become Popular
- Who was Theseus the great Athenian king and hero
- What convinced Americans during the 1918 Flu Pandemic to wear masks
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- Tropics of Meta
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- The Junto
- Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society
- Process: A Blog for American History
- Legal History Blog
- Balkinization
- Cooking in the Archives
- We're History
- Real Clear History
- History News Network
- National Museum of American History
- Oxford University Press Blog
- Johns Hopkins University Press Blog
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