Archives for 2021

The English Reformation and Wolsey’s Fall

This series has seven easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: Tyndall Works on the Bible.IntroductionThe "New Learning" which had

IntroductionGreater fame ordinarily attaches to the discovery of some vast region of the earth than to the finding or exploring of a limited coast,

The new governor was ordered to require him to abandon "his vagabond life among the Indians," cease all trade with the English, and establish a

Today's installment concludes Great Potato Famine in Ireland,our selection from Four Years of Irish History by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy published in

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