What lover of American literature doesnt remember these haunting lines: Tell about the Midwest. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all. - Of co

The Victorians didnt actually travel to the moon. But they were the first people, observes my guest Iwan Morus, to think that travel to the Moon was not only possible, but that their science already

If the Parthian Empire is known at all, its by students of Roman history who see it pop up from time to time, before disappearing once again. Marcus Licinius Crassus, a member of the first triumvirat

I can't introduce Cathal Nolan's book Mercy: Humanity in War any better than he does himself, with these words: This is not a book about war. It is about mercy and humanity Mercy happens in a microse

When the Massachusetts Historical Society was founded in 1791, its august members probably did not anticipate that one day its archives would contain not only family papers, but family dressesas well

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In late November, 1864, David R. Snelling visited his uncle, who then lived in Baldwin County near Milledgeville, Georgia. As a boy, he had worked in his uncles fields alongside those his uncle ensla

My guest today is Dr. Ben Jones, Director of the South Dakota State Historical Society and the South Dakota State Historian. - Ben Jones served for 23 years in the United States Air Force, attaining