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• 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!
• Ancient 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 Ancient History Encyclopedia
• Teaching Center: News from the Turbo-Charged World of Education
• The Democracy Watch List
• Teaching History by Sailing the Jericho River
• The Black General in 18th Century Europe
• 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
• The Backflow into Africa
• 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
• How Disobedient Confederate Generals Saved America
• 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 Benefitted Ancient Greece, and Western Civilization
• The Death of David Carthage
• The Historic Ties Binding Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea
• 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
• Four Modern Breakthroughs that Ancient Science Just Missed
• 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
• Were We Just Bystanders in Dog Domestication?
• Is America Falling, Like the Roman Empire?