This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part 2. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the Patriarch of Venice, was 76 years old when his...

This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. Western cattle and the railroads changed the agricultural economy of the East....

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part 2. Napoleon had let General Miollis handle the pope; he himself still had a war...

This text comes from our book, The American Venture. “Why not become a missionary yourself, my child?” With these words, Pope Leo XIII...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part I. Charles V’s last years were spent trying to break the power of the...

This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. In the hot, humid weather of a Philadelphia summer, delegates wrangled, tempers...

Unlike other cities he had conquered, Moscow sent no delegation of citizens to greet Napoleon.

This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. In a city in Holland called Leyden lived a colony of Englishmen. These English...

Junípero Serra was born on the island of Mallorca off the Mediterranean coast of Spain on November 24, 1713.

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part I. When only an infant, King Henry VI of England had inherited England and...

This text comes from our book, All Ye Lands. The news of Cortés’s landing at Vera Cruz filled Montezuma with fear—could the Spaniard be...

This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. It was a warm, muggy night. Guided by the lights of the town, the men quietly...

This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. Meanwhile, Juan Diego had climbed the hill of Tepeyac. “Return here tomorrow,”...

This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. In July 1759, France’s old enemy, the Iroquois Indians, joined the British in...

This text comes from our book, All Ye Lands. To weaken Russia, the Germans urged the soviet revolutionaries to take up arms against the...

This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. The states however did cooperate with the national government in the matter of...

This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. Californio factions could not bury their differences even to face a common foe....

This text comes from our book, All Ye Lands. Cortés’s conquest of the mighty Aztec kingdom inspired another Spanish conquistador to find...

This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. Fear had filled the heart of the Aztec emperor Montezuma when he heard of the...

This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. Between mid-May and early June 1776, the southern colonies, from Georgia to...