Carthage Lost the 2nd Punic War from Hannibal’s Logistics Failure and His Brother’s Bad Strategy
Iberia was one of three crucial theatres of the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome. Hannibal of Carthage’s siege of Saguntum in 219 BC triggered a conflict that led to immense human and materi...
20 Aug 202447min
The Real Robin Hood May Have Been an Anglo-Saxon Hitman Who Killed an English King
Contrary to popular belief, Robin Hood may not have been the merry medieval outlaw of Sherwood Forest. Rather, a look at real historical figures who inspired the legend are narrowed down to the most u...
15 Aug 202443min
Civilization Owes Its Existence to the Horse
The use of horses by humans began roughly 5,500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of the Pontic- Caspian Steppe when a daring man (or a woman – we have no way of knowing) jumped on the back of a d...
13 Aug 202440min
Charles Cowlam: The Civil War Con-Man Who Received Presidential Pardons From Both Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
Charles Cowlam’s career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con artist spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age. His life touched many of the most promi...
8 Aug 202435min
The Extent of Soviet Infiltration Into Depression and Cold War America
Soviet espionage existed in the United States since the U.S.S.R.’s founding and continued until its dissolution in the 1990s. It reached its height in World War 2 and the early Cold War, especially to...
6 Aug 202449min
America’s First Crime Boss Was Female Immigrant-Turned-Criminal Mastermind
In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan. By the 1870s she was a fixture of high...
1 Aug 202443min
The War Under No-Man’s Land: Military Mining and Tunnel Combat in World War One
Beneath the trench warfare of World War One existed an entirely separate war underground: battles in the mines and dugouts between the Great Powers. In 1914–17, the underground war was a product of st...
30 Juli 202445min
Eisenhower’s Logistics and Diplomatic Nightmare: Planning and Executing D-Day
In the months leading up to D-Day, Eisenhower’s attention was in relentless demand, whether he was negotiating, rallying troops, or solving crises from his headquarters in Bushy Park, London. He proje...
25 Juli 20241h 1min
