America's Utopian Communities: From Plymouth Colony's Failed Experiments in Collective Farming to 60s Hippie Communes—Timothy Miller
One of the oldest traditions in America is trying (and failing) to set up a utopian community. French Enlightenment thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed if man could return to a state of na...
6 Feb 201842min
The Reasons the Mongolian Army Was Unstoppable
Mongols were fierce on horseback, but so were the many other steppe nomads who tried and failed to conquer the walled cities of China, Persia, and Rome. Yet the Mongols succeeded where their predecess...
2 Feb 201810min
Horse and Bow- A Mongol's Two Best Friends
Steppe nomads plagued the ancient world with their cavalries, but nobody perfected this form of warfare like the Mongols. A horse archer had such a deep kinesthetic relationship with his steed he coul...
1 Feb 20189min
The Rise of Genghis- From Temujin to the Great Khan
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31 Jan 201814min
The Mongols Killed So Many People They Lowered the Global Temperature
Welcome to part one of Mongol Week(s). In this multi-part series, we will look at the Mongolian Empire from multiple perspectives, including its unprecedented level of brutality (so many died from the...
30 Jan 201812min
Chester A. Arthur's Presidency Was a Colossal Accident...And a Huge Success
Chester A. Arthur, America's 21st president, lands on the lists of the most obscure chief executives. Few know anything about him besides his trademark mutton-chop sideburns. Moreover, he fell into th...
29 Jan 201851min
The Vietnam War Was About...Stealing Asia's Tin?
Fighting over scarce resources have fueled wars back to the Sumerian city-states squabbling over water-use rights of the Euphrates river. Did the same drive fuel America's entrance into Vietnam to tak...
26 Jan 20188min
About 70-90 Percent of a Society Needs to Die Before It Completely Collapses
Some disasters hurt society (Hurricane Katrina in 2005). Bigger ones permanently alter it (the Black Death in the 1300s; Mao's Great Leap Forward). The worst of disasters completely destroy a civiliza...
25 Jan 201812min
