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October 08, 2008 03:15 PM EDT -- What Actually Happened : After World War I, the US was in a position to quickly displace the British Royal Navy as the strongest naval power in the world.   The US had enough powerful modern . . . more
June 15, 2007 04:19 PM EDT -- In Love with “The Owl”   There are lots of words you can use to describe the notorious Capone era gangsters – violent, shady, devious, cruel, loyal, greedy and passionate. They . . . more
February 12, 2006 12:04 AM EST -- Imagine Part 2 BY Mandi Gordon, with help from memoirs written by Mrs. Danuta Michalak       It is September 1944. The Polish Home Army has started an uprising against the Germans. . . . more
February 12, 2006 04:57 PM EST -- Imagine Part 3 By Mandi Gordon, with the help of the memoirs of Mrs. Danuta Michalak.     After surviving World War II for 5 years, Danuta is now living in a small village called Ostrow, . . . more
February 11, 2006 03:08 PM EST -- Imagine By Mandi Gordon with the help of memoirs written by Mrs. Danuta Michalak   Imagine something for me.   You wake up everyday safe and warm, your belly full. Your family is around . . . more
July 10, 2006 01:18 AM EDT -- J.P Mallory posits in his book, "In Search of the Indo-Europeans," that Common Slavic, sometime between 400-900 AD broke into several related but distinct variants, most notably Eastern Slavic, . . . more
June 30, 2007 11:29 AM EDT -- [I'd apologize for the length of this article, but I'm not going to. It is what it is. ~kate]   The star-crossed State of Franklin  Although the song claims Davy Crockett was “born . . . more
August 14, 2007 06:07 PM EDT -- Friends and devoted readers may recall that I once published several writing exercises related to vintage photographs that had come into my possession through years of collecting rare books and prints. . . . more
November 21, 2007 12:45 PM EST -- clipped from en.wikipedia.org   The first Thanksgiving was a year away when the Pilgrims, moored off Cape Cod, put pen to paper, agreeing . . . more
June 13, 2006 01:50 PM EDT -- The day before yesterday and a few days before that I made allusions to and wrote about Dr. Brydon and what happened during the First Afghan War. In late 2001 I was pretty darn convinced that what is happening . . . more
Questions, Questions
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 16 | rating: 10 | comments: 3
April 16, 2006 09:25 PM EDT -- Amira asks some darn good questions. Full disclosure, they are all about Kyrgyzstan, you know, that mountain country high in the Tien Shan I visited three summers ago? Now, Barthold mentions the Kyrgyz . . . more
April 23, 2007 11:52 PM EDT --  In the beginning... At the base of a dry leafless tree some of our earliest relatives huddle and wait.  Their leader, the alpha male, is perched in the tree.  He’s 4 feet tall.  . . . more
In Its Own Class
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 113 | rating: 9.9 | comments: 43
November 10, 2006 09:51 AM EST -- The Islamic world is filled with magnificent cities. Samarkand, Bukhara, Damascus, Cairo, Istanbul and Mecca are all at the top of any top ten list, but Isfahan is in a class of its own. A city where the . . . more
OPEN CALL FOR US HISTORY WRITERS
by Liz G
views: 154 | rating: 10 | comments: 33
May 29, 2007 06:11 PM EDT -- A new group dedicated to U.S. History will soon be launching on Gather.  The main focus is Colonial Williamsburg from 1750-1783. However, content outside of this period will be included as well. . . . more
Palimpsest
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 23 | rating: 10 | comments: 7
August 07, 2006 02:00 PM EDT -- I've always loved that word, "palimpsest." I like how it sounds and am fascinated by what it means. But I don't like what it conjures up inside my head: visions of cold, shivering medieval . . . more
January 15, 2006 09:50 PM EST -- John Fawcett's journey began on a freezing night in February 1936, riding the blinds of a crack passenger train. It was to change the 16-year-old's life forever. The son of a prosperous ophthalmologist . . . more
September 07, 2006 08:56 PM EDT -- I find myself with a dilemma, albeit a fortunate one. I am traveling to Iran to further research on a book and to accrue more personal experience with the people of the old Inner Asian trade routes. That . . . more
April 30, 2006 10:32 PM EDT -- In the mid 1500s the Ming dynasty began building what we now consider "The Great Wall," that long, ribbon-like orange brick edifice snaking across the mountains north of Beijing. Before the . . . more
May 09, 2007 10:57 PM EDT -- Clearly much of the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden has nothing to do with history or science.  Snakes don’t talk.  Women aren’t made from the ribs of men.  And eating apples . . . more
April 22, 2008 07:10 PM EDT -- In the early 20 th century Louisville, Kentucky held the highest death rates in the country from Tuberculosis. This was mainly because of it's location. The area had a lot of swamp land, and this . . . more
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