A portrait of King Louis XVI by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis.Louis XVI, clad in plain attire, made a fateful decision: rather than resist the mob, he sought ...

In this update: Contact Congress: Reject the president’s budget proposal and support IMLS, NEH, and NPS Contact Congress: Don’t increase tax burden on ...

Our colleague Bo Li, at the University of Wollongong, used optical luminescence dating methods on the layers of earth ...

If you visit any major airport, it is hard to imagine a time when jet engines did not exist. But while flying thousands of miles around the world ...

The Battle of the Allia by Gustave Surand.The road to battleIn the early 4th century BCE, Rome was a rising power in central Italy, exerting influence ...

We are excited to announce that a new intern for The Family History Guide has started working with us – please welcome Zion Robertson! Zion got an early ...

The Greater Omaha Genealogical Society is one of the largest in the state of Nebraska. As noted on its website, its goals are to Unite persons ...

Greetings, historians! S-USIH is proud to continue to host 1-2 sessions at the Organization of American Historians’ next annual meeting, to ...

As we look ahead to the S-USIH annual meeting this November, one might ask what makes the host city an appropriate, interesting, even ...

Germany’s Joachim von Ribbentrop signing the Anti-Comintern Pact in November,ber 1936.The Japanese–Soviet Relations 1900–1939The Russo-Japanese WarJapan ...