Archives for June 2021

London’s Great Fire

This series has two easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: 10,000 Houses Aflame.IntroductionIn the reign of Charles II -- the

Remember that our father has taught you that gentlemen are born to shed their blood for the service of God and the king.Our special project

Today's installment concludes Henry Hudson Explores the Hudson River,our selection from Life of Henry Hudson by Henry R. Cleveland.If you have

He now determined to ascertain, by intoxicating some of the chiefs, and thus throwing them off their guard, whether they were plotting any

They passed through the Narrows, sounding all along, and saw "a narrow river to the westward, between two islands," supposed to be Staten Island and

This series has four easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: Crossing the North Atlantic.IntroductionAlthough Henry Hudson was not

Today's installment concludes Canute Becomes King of England,our selection from History of England by David Hume published in 1754. If you have

Canute, like a wise prince, was determined that the English, now deprived of all their dangerous leaders, should be reconciled to the Danish yoke, by

Early in February, three hundred men under Dorvilliers were sent by Frontenac to surprise the Iroquois in their hunting-grounds.Our special