This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. It was silent night, November 20, 1837. By order...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. Conditions did not improve when George IV became...

From our text, Lands of Hope and Promise, A History of North America. By early 1917, the British blockade of Germany was beginning to...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. … [T]hough Romanticism started as a literary...

This text comes from our book,Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. Despite the Treaty of Amiens, France and Great...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. For many years, Hungary and Austria had shared...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. Leo XIII was the first pope in many centuries to...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. “Gladly do We offer Our life for the Peace of the...

From our text, Lands of Hope and Promise, A History of North America. It was September 13. [General Winfield] Scott had granted Santa...

From our text, Lands of Hope and Promise, A History of North America. It was January 1848. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo had not yet...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. The Franco-Prussian War, as the 1870 struggle...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. It continues our account of Garibaldi’s invasion...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. The threat of France entering the war convinced...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. It was fortunate for the revolutionary government...

From our text, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World The pope’s army was very small—no more than four thousand men. It...

From our text, Lands of Hope and Promise, A History of North America. A group of creole intellectuals and army officers had been meeting...

From our text, Lands of Hope and Promise, A History of North America. It was not conditions in New Spain that finally precipitated...

Alfonso VI’s fame was surpassed only by one other man of his time, whom Spanish legend presents as a loyal soldier and vassal. He was...

While Paris ran with the blood of patriots, French arms continued to achieve victories against the republic’s enemies. By the spring of...

This week's "This Week in History" continues a story about Prince Fritz that we began last August, which you may read here. Reconciled at...