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- Even history’s most notable authors sometimes wrote badly
- Race Has No Role in Tolkien’s World
- Foreigners Understand Shakespeare Better than English-Speakers
- The big lie was not a conspiracy, and the next attack won’t be either
- The Treaty of Westphalia, 100% Accurate
- Putin and Appeasement’s Bad Track Record
- Democracy Creates a Mess for the Rest of the World
- The Black General in 18th Century Europe
- The U.N. CAN Remove Russia’s Security Council Seat
- The Historic Ties Binding Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea
- EU Superpower: The New Holy Roman Empire
- Thank you, American armed forces
- Four Modern Breakthroughs that Ancient Science Just Missed
- Leofric and Lady Godiva
- “Thay”: Gender-Neutral Pronoun
- The History Behind Polarized America
- The Backflow into Africa
- Disobedient Confederate Generals Helped End the Civil War
- Welcome to World History Encyclopedia
- Neanderthal and Denisovan Genes – and Covid-19
- History Tells Us Congress CAN Impeach the President After His Term
- History Tells Us the President Cannot “Self-Pardon”
- NYC Big Book Awards!
- What Really Happens in a Challenged Election
- America Has No Guarantee of Freedom
- “The Renaissance” Preview
- King George III: The Abdication that Never Happened
- Police History: Constable vs. Paramilitary
- This Week in History: Althing
- This Week in History: The Treaty of Tordesillas
- This Week in History: the Ashmolean Museum
- This week in history: Kublai Khan
- Independent Press Award
- The Fall of Troy and Its Warning for 2020
- Follow-up to REAL theories for the origin of April Fool’s Day
- Which of these are REAL theories for the origin of April Fool’s Day?
- Coronavirus Would Not Have Disrupted Our Ancestors’ Lives
- This week in history: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- This week in history: Louisiana Purchase
- This week in history: the Articles of Confederation
- This week in history: Huaynaputina
- This week in history: William Henry Harrison
- This week in history: Groundhog Day
- This week in history: the Diet of Worms
- The Chief Justice Can Call Witnesses
- As Benedict Arnold means treason, Donald Trump will mean corruption
- This week in history: Caligula
- This week in history: Captain Cook
- Who Thought Up Dog Domestication, People or Dogs?
- This week in history: Louis Braille
- This week in history: Ceres
- This week in history: Hagia Sophia
- Vichy and American Collaborators
- This week in history: The Boston Tea Party
- This week in history: Encyclopaedia Britannica
- This week in history: Napoleon III
- This week in history: Thespis
- Time for an Independent Attorney General
- This week in history: Queen Elizabeth
- This week in history: The Mayflower
- This week in history: The Sistine Chapel
- This week in history: Annie Edson Taylor
- This week in history: Louis XIII
- This week in history: Theodore Roosevelt
- This week in history: Sputnik I
- This week in history: The Rosetta Stone
- This week in history: Wright Flyer II
- This Week in History: David & Michelangelo
- 9/11 and the Failure of Terrorism
- Magellan: This Week in History
- This Week in 30 BC: Augustus in Egypt
- My New Novel, Secrets of Hominea!
- Fantastic New Jericho River Review
- Fat Men’s Clubs
- Ancient History Encyclopedia Wins Lovie Awards!
- Test your history knowledge with this fun, educational, interactive quiz!
- World History Encyclopedia
- The History of the World in Nineteen Minutes
- George Washington and the Dignity of the Presidency
- The History of Japan in Nine Minutes
- A New Timeline — and an Old Brain — for Homo Sapiens
- Jericho River Article at World History Encyclopedia
- Teaching Center: News from the Turbo-Charged World of Education
- The Democracy Watch List
- Teaching History by Sailing the Jericho River
- The Roman Empire Survived Unbalanced Executives — Maybe America Can Too
- Here’s what I think progressives and moderates should do …
- Trump, ISIS, and the Tactics of the Weak
- This is How Democracy Begins to Die
- Trump Threatens to Jail Clinton: An Authoritarian in America
- The Founding Fathers and the Election of 2016
- Governments can’t stop terrorism any more than lions can stop flea-bites.
- King Tut’s Dagger Was Made from “Iron of the Sky”: a Metorite
- LitPick Interview
- Kobo Top 50: The Jericho River!
- BookBub Feature & Discount, Jericho River E-books
- An Amateur Historian Imagines a Trump Presidency
- Thoughtful, Enthusiastic Review for The Jericho River
- Star Wars and History: Samurai and Nazis
- Star Wars and History: Divine Conception in Myth
- Star Wars and History: Father vs. Son in Myth
- Star Wars and History: Joseph Campbell and the Urban Myth with a Thousand Faces
- Star Wars and History: Fall of the Knights Templar
- Star Wars and History: Roman Republic and Empire
- Decline on Downton Abbey: Why the Nobles and Gentry Went Broke
- Two New Reviews of The Jericho River
- Ancient Man-Made Global Warming and Environmental Engineering
- A Chance to Win a Paperback Copy of The Jericho River
- This is How to Make History Interesting
- Midwest Book Reviews x2
- Captive aboard the Dead Valencia
- Black Europeans, Short Spaniards, Tall Swedes, Milk, and Recent Human Evolution
- Terrorists and Barbarians
- Why Sounds Yoda so Archaic?
- The Real Destruction of Atlantis
- Historical Mashup by Ivan Gataric — for The Jericho River
- In the Hall of the Dead King
- Snow White May Have Begun as a Sexy Goddess
- Jericho River Poster, by Benjamin Roque
- Beautiful New Cover for The Jericho River
- Why We’re Cruel
- The U.K. Admits the American Revolutionaries Were Right
- Why Conquer?
- The Ugly Duchess
- European Antisemitism Isn’t Back
- Did Ancient Semites Father the Germanic Languages?
- America’s Enemies Already Knew
- Torture
- The Walking Dead: A Tour of Prehistory
- Cheddar Man’s Family
- History of the Fortune Cookie
- Polynesian Canoes Reached the Americas
- Dracula’s Dungeon Found?
- We Evolved to Eat Vegetables and Meat, Not Grains and Dairy
- Did Hobbits Live among Us Recently?
- Britain Does Something Noble
- Why the U.S. Has No Name
- The Dominican Republic Once Agreed to Join the U.S.
- Homo ghostus
- The English Are Celtic (or Something)
- How Scotland and England Merged in the First Place
- How Queen Elizabeth I Held Back the Toilet
- Maps That Explain the Roman Empire
- Downton’s Mr. Bates Must Be an Assassin
- Speech May Have Begun with Clicks Instead of Words
- Russia’s Romanov Czars Might Not Have Been Romanovs
- How Scotland Can Have a Republican Head of State AND a Royal Family
- “300” Got It Wrong: Persian Rule Might Have Been Good for Greece – and Western Civilization
- The Death of David Carthage
- Downton Abbey Revisited: What Mary Owns, and Baby George Crawley
- The Magic of History
- Punctuated Equilibrium: Natural History’s Pattern, and History’s Too
- The Least Violent Time Ever? Now.
- See the Face of Richard III
- The Da Vinci Code Conspiracy: Three Fatal Flaws
- Lighten Up, Francis
- Papal Resignations and Elections: A Beginner’s Guide
- America’s Founding Fathers Offered an Escape from Guns
- The “Entail,” Primogeniture, and Why Matthew Inherits Downton Abbey
- Cities, Creativity, and Why the World Will Never Be Flat
- Prehistory and the DNA of Lice
- Hand-Drawn Map of the Classical Mediterranean
- “Anonymous” and the Shakespeare Controversy
- Why Did so Many of History’s Kings Marry their Sisters?
- The Horse Reshaped Civilization — Without Horseback Riding
- Aramaic: the Humble Language that Overcame the Persian, Greek, and Roman Empires
- Stone Age GPS and the Discovery of Hawaii
- Town and Garden: Words Across Time
- A History of Libya in 7 Bullet Points
- The Lost World of Neanderthals, Hobbits, and Other Hominins
- History’s Worst Governments Had the Most Ideology
- Pre-Columbian Cotton Armor: Better than Steel
- The Unbelievable Duration of Egyptian Civilization
- Breaking News (to Me): Lafayette Was Not Handsome
- Is America Falling, Like the Roman Empire?