Tag: world history

The Hundred Years War The International History ProjectThe Hundred Years War was an intermittent struggle between England and France in the 14th-15th century over a series of disputes, including the question of the legitimate succession to the French crown. The struggle involved several generations ...

The Race to Build the Bomb At the start of World War Two the only countries capable of making the bomb were Germany, Japan and the United States. When it came to doing atomic research and development Germany had a good organization. Japan had a good organization. The United States had a mess. But......

Civilization: Drawbacks And Limits The Rise Of Civilization In The Middle East And Africa Because civilizations are by definition well organized compared to the societies that preceded them, it is not surprising that almost all history is about what has happened to civilized societies. We know most...

Mexican Revolution And The Great WarRevolution And Reaction In The 20th CenturyAuthor: Stearns, Peter N.;Adas, Michael;Schwartz, Stuart B.Date: 1992 Two cataclysmic events launched Latin America into the 20th century andset in motion trends that would determine much of the region's subsequenthistory...

Sam Watkins Confederate soldier who wrote of his experiences in the American Civil War. The following is an excerpt from 'Company Aytch' A private soldier is but an automaton, a machine that works by the command of a good, bad, or indifferent engineer, and is presumed to know nothing of all these gr...

ETRUSCANS A History of the Etruscan people including their cities, art, society, rulers and contributions to civilization By: Robert Guisepi 2002 Etruscan Pottery...

By the simplest definition, architecture is the design of buildings, executed by architects. However, it is more. It is the expression of thought in building. It is not simply construction, the piling of stones or the spanning of spaces with steel girders. It is the intelligent creation of forms and...

Mesopotamia The International History Project Date: 2003 The achievements of ancient Mesopotamia The world of mathematics and astronomy owes much to the Babylonians--for instance, the sexagesimal system for the calculation of time and angles, which is still practical because of the multiple divisibi...

A History of England The Kings and Queens of England Saxon 802-839 Egbert 839-858 Ethelwulf 858-860 Ethelbald 860-865 Ethelbert 865-871 Ethelred 871-899 Alfred the Great 901-924 Edward the Elder 924-939 Athelstan 939-946 Edmund I 946-955 Edred 955-959 Edwy 959-975 Edgar 975-978 Edward the Martyr ...

Braxton Bragg b. March 22, 1817, Warrenton, N.C., U.S.d. Sept. 27, 1876, Galveston, Texas Confederate officer in the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) whose successes in the West were dissipated when he failed to follow up on them.After graduating in 1837 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., B...

KOREAN WAR Various Authors Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Early in the morning of June 25, 1950, the armed forces of Communist North Korea smashed across the 38th parallel of latitude in an invasion of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) that achieved complete surprise. Although attacks came all along the...

Ancient Rome The Grandeur of Rome, Gary Edward Forsythe: Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. Author of The Historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the Roman Annalistic Tradition. Robert A. Guisepi: Author of Ancient Voices (Re-printed by permission) "Re...