Soon after the start of the American Revolutionary War in 1775, the Thirteen Colonies proclaimed their independence from British rule and became the United States of America.
How Africa's most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country.
Until late in the eighteenth century, the peasantry of the German states had been dismissed contemptuously by the aristocracy and middle classes as brutish and virtually subhuman.
Groen van Prinsterer (1801-1876), born in an aristocratic family, became a dedicated Protestant in his younger years and one of the leaders of Dutch and European Christianity, gaining an influential role as pioneer in international Christian thought and parliamentary action.
Conventional wisdom claims that the seventeenth century gave birth to the material and ideological forces that culminated in the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism.
Das Werk des Thukydides uber den Peloponnesischen Krieg hat nicht nur bis heute unsere Vorstellung von Geschichte mageblich gepragt, es fordert aufgrund der Komplexitat seiner Darstellung auch die philologische wie historische Interpretation in besonderem Mae heraus.
In 1943, Lebanon gained its formal political independence from France; only after two more decades did the country finally establish a national central bank.
In the 200 years since the famous battle in the muddy, bloody fields of Waterloo, almost every aspect of the fighting has been examined and analyzed, apart from one - that of finding and illustrating locations relating to the campaign.
