Archives for July 2021

Description of the Famine

The English gentry were busy in transferring the harvest to England or clearing the population off their estates sowing a hatred which persisted to

This series has three easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: What Went Wrong.IntroductionThis is the stories of one of the greatest

Today's installment concludes Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen,our selection from History of Gustavus Adolphus by Benjamin Chapman published in

The Imperialist soldiers about the King, each anxious to possess some trophy, had stripped the body to the shirt, and were about to carry it off when

The contest for territorial mastery was fourfold: first, for the control of the west; secondly, for that of Hudson's Bay; thirdly, for that of

This series has three easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: On the Road to Lutzen.IntroductionNo actor in the Thirty Years' War

Today's installment concludes Catholic Emancipation in Ireland,with our final installment from William E.H. Lecky and then we present the third part

The tenant usually sublet his tenancy, and on the great rise of prices resulting from the war, the subtenant usually took a similar course, and the

This marks a great social revolution in Ireland — the substitution of the priests for the landlords as the leaders of the people.Continuing Catholic