Archives for March 2013

Persia’s First Conquests

That Cyrus was the first Persian conqueror, and that the space which he overran covered no less than fifty degrees of longitude, from the coast of

This series has seven» easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: After the Fall of Assyria.IntroductionThe defeat of the Assyrians at

Today's installment concludes First French Colony in the Louisiana Area,our selection from A History of Louisiana by Charles E.A. Gayarré published

The distance between the Mississippi and Biloxi was not so easily overcome in those days as in ours, and the means which the two brothers had of

Sauvolle had been appointed by the King governor of Louisiana; Bienville, lieutenant-governor; and Boisbriant, commander of the fort at Biloxi, with

A few huts having been erected round the fort, the settlers began to clear the land, in order to bring it into cultivation.Continuing First French

This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: French Arrive at Mouth of Mississippi River.IntroductionNothing in

Today's installment concludes The Alaska Purchase,our selection from Charles Sumner's Speech to the Senate During the Alaskan Treaty Ratification

Dispatches between Seward and the Russian Ambassador an then discussion of the treaty itself.Continuing The Alaska Purchase,our selection from