… In the folksong “National Brotherhood Week”, Tom Lehrer sings: Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics, And the Catholics hate the Protestants, And the Hindus hate the Moslems, And everybody hates the Jews. (1) Anti-Semitism was based not on the…

… France was an absolute monarchy and England was a constitutional monarchy.” While both the French and English empires were growing overseas, the modern system of great powers was evolving in Europe itself. France became Europe’s superpower…

… for the colonists to break with Great Britain and embrace independence, so, too, it took time for Americans to think of themselves as (in Alexander Hamilton's words in The Federalist No. 85) "a nation without a national government" -- something…

… the Bosnians and the Russians are a perfect match.This history started in the middle of the first thousand years A.D. when the tribes called the Southern Slavs migrated into the southeast area of Europe known as the Balkans. The Slav…

… in 1776, during the 2nd Continental Congress, was ratified on March 1, 1781, by the thirteen states. It remained the unifying document of the states until June 21, 1788. The Articles provided the United States with a legislature (Congress) of which…

… the Western World had begun to change. They were not going back to the systems of old, they desired a Revolution of Liberalism and Nationalism. This was the collective voice of change that sparked the “Industrial Revolutions.” The first Industrial…

… 1769: Napoleon Bonaparte is born Ajaccio Corsica Dec 15th 1778: Named representative of Louis XIV May 15th 1778: Enters Brienne military school Oct 17th 1784: Enters Royal military school in Paris June 11th 1793: Bonaparte family forced to flee…

… was an attempt by white Southerners to separate the races in every sphere of life and to achieve supremacy over blacks. Segregation was often called the Jim Crow system, after a minstrel show character from the 1830s who was an old, crippled, black…

… also known as the agricultural revolution, was a change in the way of life of our ancestors. This period was a full transition from a food gathering to a food producing society. It took place about eight thousand years ago among various tribes in Asia…

… the Victorian Age, which encompassed the last quarter of the nineteenth century, England was at its highest point. The British Empire extended all over the world, prompting the phrase, "The sun never sets in the British Empire." The era saw the flouris…