Today is Thanksgiving Day.This year we are reprinting Ezra's Thanksgivin' Out West a fictional story by Eugene Field from "A Little Book of
Archives for 2021
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
Earliest Detroit
Nobody can deny that the priests own three quarters of Canada.Our special project presenting the definitive account of France in Canada by
The Dark Side of the Roman Emperors’ Rule
Today's installment concludes Roman Empire's Government,our selection from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Rome at Its Height
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he
Emperor Turnover in Early Roman Empire
Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.Continuing
Government Stability in Early Roman Empire
The soldiers were seldom roused to that fatal sense of their own strength, and of the weakness of the civil authority, which was, before and
Absolute Monarchy in Disguise
The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the
Parkman Part 6-1, Chapter 2
In the few years of doubtful peace that preceded Queen Anne's War, an enterprise was begun, which, nowise in accord with the wishes and expectations