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Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was established by Royal Charter in 1663 : Because titles to these lands rested only on Indian deed...

Thomas M. Truxes - Defying Empire:Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York Everyone in colonial New York City traded with the enemy (the ...

CSPAN has another Presidential rating survey out. I don't have time for an extended "review" (well, frankly, my general resp...

I couldn't pass up pointing to this story : The disease, which struck Europe in the Middle Ages killing more than 25 million people, has...

Douglas E. Schoen and Michael Rowan, The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America . In the Preface, Schoen and Rowan e...

According to Professor Ferenc Szasz , contemporary "rap battles" (which I thought originated from "the dozens") "de...

I mentioned my new Burgundians in the Mist blog earlier. Turns out I had inadvertently restricted access. That's been rectified and it...

Patrick Reddy has a fair recounting of the Bush Presidency and how history will view it. His conclusion ( emphasis added ): What will be ve...

From the Politico : [T]here are early rumblings of a backlash to Obama's ostentatious embrace of all things Lincoln, with his not-so-sub...

I took the shears to the blogroll and links (to the right) pruned a lot and planted a couple new ones. Oh, and I clipped the post ":...

I've decided to go in a new direction and start blogging about that area of history most near and dear to my heart--the history of the B...

Tim Lacy is worried that historians are engaged in "a dichotomous conversation" based on their ability to pay for (and thus acces...

Bill Murphy, Jr., In a Time of War: The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002 . Bill Murphy writes: Todd Bryant and h...

It took historians a full term of George W. Bush's presidency before they declared he was " the worst president ever. " Now, ...

Nominations for The Cliopatria Awards for the best history blogging are open through November. Final selections will be made by panels of h...

Obviously, the historical importance of the moment is unmistakable. An African-American President has been elected through the normal means...

Craig L. Symonds, Lincoln and his Admirals Weeks into his presidency, Abraham Lincoln was confronted with his first naval question: What to ...

George and Robert Leonard, founding members of the Fifties retro group Sha Na Na, examine the scholarly interest in how their singing group...

La Guerre de Sécession en 4 minutes - Videos

Thomas J. Craughwell (with M. William Phelps), Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pis and ...