History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The Mormons in America: The Story of a Frontier By I.D. Lloyd-Jones Published in History Today Christianity Religion Social Modern USA When Mark Twain said of the Mormons, “Their religion is singular but their wives are plural” he expressed the sum of what is generally known about them. Yet, writes...
History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 23 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Theodore Roosevelt: President of the United States, 1901-1908 By Marcus Cunliffe Published in History Today Political 20th Century USA Theodore Roosevelt Marcus Cunliffe re-estimates a big man in several respects, of a scale that the American presidency demands and does not always get. Theodore...
History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 23 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The Spanish-American War By Alec Campbell Published in History Today Military Modern Cuba USA During a short-lived, phase of expansionism, writes Alec Campbell, the United States wrested Cuba and the Philippines from their Spanish rulers. The result was ultimately beneficial to Cuba and, indirectly,...
History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 23 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Radical Jack: John George Lambton, First Earl of Durham By George Woodcock Published in History Today Political Modern Britain Proud, wayward, immensely rich, with romantic good looks and an explosive temper, John Lambton was one of those natural rebels who turn their rebellious energies to constructive...
History Today Jump to Navigation Friday, 25 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The War of 1812 in Canada By J. Mackay Hitsman Published in History Today Empire Military Napoleonic Era Canada Britain USA While Britain was engrossed in the struggle with Napoleon, writes J. Mackay Hitsman, a defensive war with the United States was fought along the frontiers of Upper and Lower...
History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 23 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Captain George Vancouver 1757-1798 By George Godwin Published in History Today Maritime Early Modern (16th-18thC) Canada Britain USA North America George Godwin charts the life of the Royal Navy commander and his exploration of the northwestern regions of contemporary Canada and USA. On a leaden...
History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 23 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Emerson: A Prophet Not Without Honour By Arnold Whitridge Published in History Today Environmental History Philosophy Modern USA Arnold Whitridge describes how, unlike everybody else in his generation, Emerson understood, loved and castigated the two different, but closely related, strains in American...
Three statues dating back to 450 B.C. have been stolen from a museum in northern Sudan. Their disappearance underscores the lack of protection afforded Sudan’s rich but under-developed archaeological heritage. “They are small statues, about 10-15cm high but it’s very significant because the Napatan kingdom is one of the important periods in Sudanese history”, Abdurrahman ...
An unusual find of 34 mummies in Siberia has archaeologists wondering who these people were -- and why they wore copper masks. Continue reading ...
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Intact mosaics have been found on the floors of a Byzantine monastery found in the Negev Desert. These tiles have managed to retain their vibrant blue, red, yellow and green colors over the centuries. The floor decorations, IAA officials say, include inscriptions in Greek and the Syriac language, which contain rather helpful information for historians: ...
History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 16 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Churchill and Hitler: At Arms, At Easels By Nigel Jones Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 5 2014 Art Winston Churchill Churchill and Hitler painted scenes of the Western Front while in remarkably close proximity to one another. Churchill and Hitler did not have much in common, but they...
History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 16 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Through the Cracks of Oblivion By Mathew Lyons Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 5 2014 Elizabethan England Without dexterity and imagination historians are in danger of overlooking the telling details that complete the bigger picture, argues Mathew Lyons. One of the criticisms levelled...
History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 16 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The Rise of Gay Rights By Richard Canning Posted 16th April 2014, 10:40 Social The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire Liberal Resistance and the Bloomsbury Group David A.J. Richards Cambridge University Press 282pp £20 What a vital subject – pertinent; necessary; well-conceived! Yet...
Evidence of a French colonial home has been found beneath layers of concrete and bricks in St. Louis. Meyer and his team have found the first evidence of where a French colonial home once stood. The darker, trench-like formation in an approximate 25 by 30 foot hole shows where a series of wood posts were ...
History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 15 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Napoleon on Elba, 1814 By Stephen Cooper Posted 15th April 2014, 14:57 Napoleonic Era After losing the Battle of the Nations (or Leipzig) in October 1813, Napoleon Bonaparte was deposed; but by the Treaty of Fontainebleau of April 11th 1814, he was made ruler of the island of Elba, with an administrative...
Byzantine monks used asbestos in the plaster coatings underneath their wall paintings, hundreds of years before the material became ubiquitous in construction. Asbestos is a type of natural, rock-forming mineral known for its ability to separate into long, flexible fibers. It has long been thought that asbestos fibers, which are corrosion- and combustion-resistant, were first ...
Commodore Jones’s War History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 17 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Commodore Jones’s War By G.G. Hatheway Published in History Today Maritime Military Modern USA In the belief that either Britain or France was about to wrest California from Mexico, writes G.G. Hatheway, an American Commodore in 1842 attempted the venture himself, with some...
History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 16 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: A More Perfect Union By Alexander Winston Published in History Today Political American Revolution Early Modern (16th-18thC) USA On May 14th, 1787, a Convention met in Philadelphia to draw up the articles of “ a more perfect union”. Alexander Winston describes how the problem was “government or...
History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 17 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The Texan War of 1835-1836 By J. Mackay Hitsman Published in History Today Military Modern USA In 1836, after a short but violent struggle, conspicuously mismanaged on both sides, Texas wrested its independence from Mexico, which had itself secured its independence from Spain only fifteen years earlier....