# History
Great and Bold World War II Raids
World War II saw plenty of ambitious raids, in which relatively small attacking forces sought to inflict disproportionately great losses…
SPQR: The Men Who Made and Secured the Roman Republic
It has been more than two thousand years since the Roman Republic collapsed, to be replaced by a de facto…
Floods, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes: History’s Most Consequential Natural Catastrophes
Mother Nature – and she can be a real mean mommy at times – sometimes acts up in extremely violent…
Bringing the Boys Home: America’s Demobilization After WWII
When World War II began, America was far from ready for a global fight. Around the world, dictators and militarists…
Suffer the Children: The Tragic Fate of Vulnerable Kids in Canadian Governmental Care
Throughout much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Canadian authorities forcibly seized Indigenous children, then raised them in boarding schools…
The Not-So-Nice Canadians of World War I
Canada and Canadians nowadays have a reputation as being one of the nicest countries and people in the world. You…
Tough Teddy and Old Hickory: America’s Most Badass Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt got into boxing in his youth, and continued to box well into middle age in the White House.…
The Vindictive Pope Who Dug Up and Tried a Rival’s Corpse
Rome and Central Italy in the early Middle Ages were marked by feudal violence and near anarchy, as various factions…
The Fake Nobleman Who Scammed Millions in the Wild West
The Wild West produced many wild figures, and when it comes to crooks, few were wilder or more brazen than…
George S. Patton Lesser Known Facts
During World War II, George S. Patton led the US Seventh Army in North Africa and Sicily, and commanded the…