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Antoine-Frédéric Accepts the Challenge: April 23, 1833
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. Like all Europeans, Catholics in the 1840s were...
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Apr 20, 20214 min read
From the Founding General Editor, CTP
History is a treasure chest of riches. In its stories are the most exciting, the saddest, and the happiest moments of human life...
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Apr 13, 20212 min read
Luther and the Diet of Worms: April 17, 1521
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations I: The History of Christian Civilization. Being excommunicated, Luther was given over...
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Apr 12, 20213 min read
Death Dance at Shiloh: April 6-7, 1862
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. It took over 400 vessels to ferry the immense...
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Apr 6, 20214 min read
Death Day of a Queen Who was Nobody’s Fool: April 1, 1204
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations I: The History of Christian Civilization. At Henry I’s death, civil war engulfed...
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Mar 26, 20213 min read
The Standards and Beyond
In this recording of our webinar from March 25, 2021, join Michael Van Hecke, President and Christopher Zehnder, General Editor for a...
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Mar 26, 20211 min read
Milan and Venice Expel the Austrians: March 22, 24, 1848
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. Why was the imperial government in Vienna...
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Mar 19, 20212 min read
The Pope's Anti-Nazi Encyclical: March 14, 1937
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. For Adolf Hitler, the Catholic Church was the...
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Mar 12, 20214 min read
The Fall of Metternich: March 13, 1848
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. In only a few days, Kossuth’s speech to the...
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Mar 6, 20213 min read
Tippecanoe and Texas Too: February 28, 1845
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. In May 1836, John C. Calhoun said: “there [are]...
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Feb 26, 20214 min read
The Emperor Returns: February 26, 1815
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. Almost immediately after arriving on Elba in May...
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Feb 19, 20213 min read
Slaughter in Saragossa: February 20, 1809
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. The Bourbon Carlos IV had been king of Spain...
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Feb 12, 20214 min read
Execution of the Queen of Scots: February 8, 1587
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations I: The History of Christian Civilization. Elizabeth’s one serious rival for the...
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Feb 5, 20212 min read
Conclusion to a Bootless Victory: February 2, 1848
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. It was September 13. [General Winfield] Scott had...
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Jan 29, 20214 min read
“Cruel and Barbarous Martyrdom” at Ayubale: January 25, 1704
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. In 1680, a band of pagan Indians attacked a...
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Jan 22, 20214 min read
The Pope Condemns a “Phantom Heresy”: January 22, 1899
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. It continues a discussion of the struggle between...
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Jan 15, 20217 min read
What Happened on the Way to the Opera: January 14, 1858
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. Emperor though he was, Napoleon III had to keep...
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Jan 11, 20213 min read
The Birth of One Who Loved the Wounds of Christ: January 3, 1694
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. I have been in great battles without ever...
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Jan 4, 20213 min read
The Cristero Revolt Begins: January 1, 1927
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. While Obregón, fearing to jeopardize his power, had...
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Dec 28, 20207 min read
A Christmas Present for Old Abe: December 22, 1865
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. On November 7, 1864, the day before the northern...
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Dec 18, 20204 min read
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