The Boston Tea Party wasn’t about higher taxes. It was America’s first response to too big to fail.
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Holy Terror: The Rise of the Order of Assassins
During the Crusades, the Muslim sect known as the Order of the Assassins tamed more powerful enemies using a shocking means: murder
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Daily Quiz for August 13, 2009
Paul Revere was not the only man sent out to warn the people of Massachusetts that "the British are coming." These two men also spread the warning that night.
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The Emperor’s Tipping Point: Napoleon at Eylau Preview
Forget Waterloo. Napoleon’s decline was clearly signaled by his failures at the Battle of Eylau eight years earlier.
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What Do We Owe the Indians?
Paul VanDevelder writes about the troubled history of the 562 Native American nations, their 371 treaties with the United States, and the emerging importance of natural resources found on Native American lands.
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Uneasy About Alcohol – America and the Booze Question
The Pilgrims drank. So did the Founding Fathers. Prohibition couldn’t curb Americans’ thirst for booze, and years of teetotaling tirades fell on deaf ears. So why did alcohol become the focus of one of this nation’s greatest moral crusades?
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Daily Quiz for October 15, 2008
In addition to being an Irish Revolutionary leader and Union commander in the Civil War, Thomas Francis Meagher was also this.
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Interview: Jason Phillips and Aaron Sheehan-Dean / Diehard Rebels
It’s perfectly feasible to imagine that if the South had successfully left the Union, […]
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Daily Quiz for July 10, 2008
This legendary hero of the American Revolution was nearly beaten to death by a mob in Baltimore in 1812.
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‘A Stupid Old Useless Fool’
William Nelson Pendleton was far more effective behind a pulpit than he was as Robert E. Lee’s chief of artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia.