Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

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History is the polemics of the victor, William F. Buckley once said. Not so in the United States, at least not regarding the Civil War. As soon as the Confederates laid down their arms, some ...

Appian's Roman History in four volumes. Vol. 1 - Books I-VIII.1 [Loeb 2] by Appianus (ca. 95 - ca. 165); White, Horace (1834-1916) Publication date 1912 Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics Loeb ...

The Ethereum Foundation has pledged $500,000 to support the legal defense of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm, who faces federal charges in the United States. In addition to the direct donation, ...

In 1834, a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship ...

The five best World War 2 books ever written according to the UK’s top military historian Explore the depths of World War II with Sir Antony Beevor's top book picks By Maria Leticia Gomes ...