Sunday, July 19, 2026

How our Founding Fathers fought the Barbary Pirates

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“[The Congress shall have the power] To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas , and offences against the law of...
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Why is French spoken on five different continents? (Answer: History)

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Spanish and Portuguese are found mainly in the Americas today, but French is spread out You might already know that  Spanish  and Portuguese...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

The “Quasi-War”: The only war between France and the United States

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“There shall be a firm inviolable and universal peace , and a true and sincere friendship between His Britannick Majesty , his heirs and suc...
Saturday, July 4, 2026

A review of Ken Burns’ “The American Revolution” (PBS)

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“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despot...

Why there are still American Revolution and Civil War buffs

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“And there was Cap’n Washington , And gentle folks about him; They say he’s grown so ‘tarnal proud He will not ride without ‘em. Yankee Dood...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

How decades of conflicts sucked Europe into the Great War

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Germans annex the Alsace-Lorraine region, and Germany becomes a unified nation In 1870, France declared war on Prussia , in an attempt to a...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

A review of “The Korean War” (audiobook)

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In 1950, the Cold War suddenly became hot.  North Korea  launched a full-scale invasion of  South Korea . The  Korean War  would soon draw ...