Where does your favorite president rank? — Every few years, C-SPAN conducts a survey of historians from around the country, asking them to rank all of the US presidents. The survey is extremely in-depth and each president is given a composite score that tracks their performance. The scores are then ranked, and the results are released. C-SPAN…

Two identical ships, two sinkings, one survivor — There are two ways to look at life. You can either put a rosy spin on life’s events and try to find positives in otherwise negative situations, or you can wallow in misfortune. Depending on your particular flavor of worldview, you will see this story in one of two ways. …

No one is offering to trade arms dealers to free your neighbor — WNBA star Brittney Griner was detained in a Russian airport on February 17th, 2022, for possessing hashish oil. The substance is illegal in Russia, and she was subsequently detained and charged with illegal drug possession. …

A brief letter to my followers — Good morning everyone, I just wanted to touch base and let you all know that my family and I are in the direct path of Hurricane Ian. This is going to be a very powerful storm that has the potential to devastate my community. …

It’s polo but with cars — When automobiles were invented, they came on the scene with the intent of replacing living, breathing horses. The early competition between cars and horses is one of the reasons we still have the term horsepower today. Early cars were referred to as horseless carriages. …

That's a lot of ants! — If you look close enough, you can find ants almost anywhere. Ants live on every continent except for Antarctica. They live in hot sandy areas. They live under manicured lawns, they live in trees and even live in cold, dry areas as well. There are ants underfoot nearly everywhere on…

One of the hallmarks of a revolutionary regime is to change the calendar. What is more powerful than intimately changing how people live and work? Time is universal. It is essential. Everything runs off of time. The calendar reigns supreme. Change the calendar, change the world. …

The tragedy of the MV Doña Paz — The Titanic made history for a number of reasons, but one of the primary shocks of the ocean liner’s sinking was the number of deaths that it produced. 1,517 people lost their lives when the Titanic went down in 1912. …

Please, for the love of God — As someone who writes extensively about history, I get asked this question a lot. Why do you use CE instead of AD? Isn’t AD more traditional? CE is “politically correct” or “revisionist.” To be fair, CE (which stands for Common Era) is new. It removes the religious undertones of AD…