Sparks Commentary

The Seven Years’ War was fought on five different continents. Thus, it was a massive worldwide conflict (as I argue  elsewhere ). It started...

Even many British histories of the war tend (understandably) to gloss over this subject In the eighteenth century , the  British Empire  was...

The Thirty Years’ War eventually claimed at least four million lives … It was one of the most destructive wars in European history . The Thi...

The Spanish-American War started out as one of the most popular wars in  American history . It was only long after the fact that it started ...

“By this Treaty, the HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES establish among themselves a EUROPEAN UNION , hereinafter called ‘the Union’, on which the Mem...

Warning: This blog post contains a disturbing picture, related to the Holocaust. It seems that people in most political movements will event...

Warning: This blog post contains a picture of an actual human skull from centuries ago. What is this film about, and why should I care about...

“We hope that this book, which knows how to say the important and say it well, contributes to spread linguistic knowledge that usually re...

" ... the American continents , by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be ...

A disturbing and intensely fascinating human drama ... It caused the fall of empires, and the rise of a new one in their place. It chang...