IntroductionWhat was it like to be a child in school in colonial days? This story (The Old Fashion School) by one of America’s greatest writers
Mark Twain’s Mississippi River
This series has seven easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: Illustrating Keelboat Talk and Manners.IntroductionA glance at the map
The Northfield Bank Job
This series has four easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: How the Idea Came.IntroductionWhen the two outlaw gangs of the Younger
Frontiersmen Before the American Revolution
This series has nine easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: Americans by Birth and Parentage.IntroductionAmerica’s western frontier
French in the Ohio Valley
This series has five easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: Survey of Lands from Florida to New Orleans and North to
Perkin Warbeck’s Rebellion
This series has six easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: Perkin’s Childhood.IntroductionSoon after his accession to the throne of
The European Slave Trade Abolished
This series has three easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: First British Opposition to Slavery.IntroductionSlavery has, alas, had
Great Potato Famine in Ireland
This series has three easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: What Went Wrong.IntroductionThis is the stories of one of the greatest
Catholic Emancipation in Ireland
This series has eight easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: The Importance of O’Connell.IntroductionScarcely less important in