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Easter Sunday is a religious holiday to some and a family holiday for others, but how did the bunny get involved? ...

Is the Bible Fact or Fiction? This question has been debated for centuries. So far, no definitive answer has been given -- here are some of the more contentious issues in the Bible that may or may not stand up to historic and scientific scrutiny. ...

A court case surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the famous pilot claims that video of the supposed plane wreckage is not convincing. ...

Erosion on a cliff face on the Isle of Arran in Scotland has revealed a Bronze Age burial cist. A cist burial spotted hanging from a cliff on the edge of Scotland came from the ceremony of a Bronze Age adult cremated swiftly after their death, say archaeologists investigating the bones of a body whose ...

A 700-year-old latrine has been found in the medieval town of Odense in Denmark. A number of Medieval wooden barrels have been uncovered in Denmark, revealing their less- than-glamorous contents. Originally built to transport goods and store fish, the barrels were converted into latrines — still filled with their original contents. “We are talking about ...

Researchers have deciphered a Greek document that shows an ancient wrestling match was fixed. ...

Grains found at campsites in central Asia suggest an ancient trade route between East and West Asia that existed 5,000 years ago. “Ancient wheat and broomcorn millet, recovered in nomadic campsites in Kazakhstan, show that prehistoric herders in Central Eurasia had incorporated both regional crops into their economy and rituals nearly 5,000 years ago,” said ...

History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 23 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The Loyalists and the American Revolution By Wallace Brown Published in History Today     Political   Social   American Revolution   Early Modern (16th-18thC)   USA   The exile of the Loyalists, writes Wallace Brown, represented the removal of the crust of increasing aristocratic pretensions that was forming...

History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 23 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Lexington: The End of a Myth By John A. Barton Published in History Today     Military   Political   American Revolution   Early Modern (16th-18thC)   USA   On April 19th, 1775, the fatal clash took place, on the Common of a small Massachusetts town, between British troops and local militia. From this village...

Washington: The Man & the Myth History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 23 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Washington: The Man & the Myth By Esmond Wright Published in History Today     Military   Political   American Revolution   Early Modern (16th-18thC)   USA   George Washington   Esmond Wright assesses the gap between the Washington of popular imagination, and established historical...

History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Lafayette: Hero of Two Worlds By Esmond Wright Published in History Today     French Revolution   American Revolution   Early Modern (16th-18thC)   USA   France   Both Lafayette’s career and the legend bound up with it have had important effects on either side of the Atlantic Ocean. Throughout 1957 France and...

History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 28 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Benjamin Franklin: A Tradesman in the Age of Reason By Esmond Wright Published in History Today     Philosophy   Political   Science & Technology   Enlightenment   Early Modern (16th-18thC)   USA   “What is the American, this new man?,” Franklin seemed to provide the answer to this question first asked in 1784....

History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Alexander Hamilton: Founding Father By Esmond Wright Published in History Today     Education   Philosophy   Political   American Revolution   Early Modern (16th-18thC)   USA   Gifted; energetic; passionate; unruly: Hamilton was “perhaps the most creative figure thrown up by the American Revolution.” By Esmond...

History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Life Insurance and the War of Independence By Nicholas Lane Published in History Today     Political   American Revolution   Early Modern (16th-18thC)   USA   Even by the standards of the eighteenth century — a period when it was still possible to be the master of more arts than one — Richard Price was conspicuous...

History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The Mountain Men: The Story of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade By Gerald Rawling Published in History Today     Economic History   Modern   USA   Once Lewis and Clark had blazed the trail to the West, writes Gerald Rawling, traders and trappers began to follow in their footsteps, as they did so opening up vast...

History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The Oregon Trail By Gerald Rawling Published in History Today     Population   Economic History   Modern   USA   Most famous of the three chief routes that led to the promised lands of the Far West was the so-called Oregon Trail. By the middle forties, writes Gerald Rawling, the popular American interest in...

Custer's Last Stand History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Custer's Last Stand By G.S. Bawling Published in History Today     Military   Modern   USA   Like other Indian nations before them, the Sioux in 1876 took up arms to defend their traditional way of life and “sold their land dearly.” During this hopeless conflict, writes G.S. Bawling, a gallant...

History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 28 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The Monroe Doctrine By Arnold Whitridge Published in History Today Volume: 6 Issue: 6   1956       Political   USA   South America   George Washington   James Monroe   George Washington had warned the American people against “the insidious wiles of foreign influence.” President Monroe, writes Arnold Whitridge,...

Cuba’s Role in American History, Part II History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 23 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Cuba’s Role in American History, Part II By Arnold Whitridge Published in History Today     Communism   Economic History   Empire   20th Century   Cuba   USA   Arnold Whitridge offers his survey of American relations with Cuba from the intervention of 1898 down to Castro’s...

Cuba’s Role in American History, Part I History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 23 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Cuba’s Role in American History, Part I By Arnold Whitridge Published in History Today     Economic History   Empire   Military   Social   Early Modern (16th-18thC)   Modern   Cuba   USA   Caribbean   From Jefferson onwards, writes Arnold Whitridge, many nineteenth-century...