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I wonder how many people reading these words know the significance of April 19th to US Americans, and others, to all of us ...

This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution ...

History reenactor Michael Halbert brought Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette to life as part of a 24-state tour that ...

While Haiti was isolated from the world, fictionalized accounts of its only monarch, Henry Christophe, were often written and ...

It was the events on April 19, 1775, celebrated annually as Patriot's Day in Massachusetts, that gave the colonists their ...

This is the thirteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...