Congress Declares War “for Democracy”: April 6, 1917
From our text, Lands of Hope and Promise, A History of North America. By early 1917, the British blockade of Germany was beginning to...
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Christopher Zehnder
Mar 24, 20233 min read
Death of a Great Romantic: March 26, 1827
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. … [T]hough Romanticism started as a literary...
Christopher Zehnder
Mar 17, 20234 min read
A Dastardly Execution: March 21, 1804
This text comes from our book,Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. Despite the Treaty of Amiens, France and Great...
Christopher Zehnder
Feb 17, 20233 min read
Hungary against the Habsburgs: March 3, 1848
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. For many years, Hungary and Austria had shared...
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Feb 10, 20234 min read
The Pope’s Republican Encyclical: February 16, 1892
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. Leo XIII was the first pope in many centuries to...
Christopher Zehnder
Feb 3, 20235 min read
The Founding of Vatican City State: February 11, 1929
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. “Gladly do We offer Our life for the Peace of the...
Christopher Zehnder
Jan 28, 20234 min read
Mexico Surrenders at Guadalupe-Hidalgo: February 2, 1848
From our text, Lands of Hope and Promise, A History of North America. It was September 13. [General Winfield] Scott had granted Santa...
Christopher Zehnder
Jan 20, 20235 min read
Gold Discovered in California: January 24, 1848
From our text, Lands of Hope and Promise, A History of North America. It was January 1848. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo had not yet...
Christopher Zehnder
Jan 14, 20233 min read
The Birth of the German Empire: January 18, 1871
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. The Franco-Prussian War, as the 1870 struggle...
Christopher Zehnder
Oct 28, 20223 min read
Victory for the Papal Zouaves: November 3, 1867
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. It continues our account of Garibaldi’s invasion...
Christopher Zehnder
Oct 21, 20225 min read
The Peace of Death at Westphalia: October 24, 1648
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. The threat of France entering the war convinced...
Christopher Zehnder
Oct 10, 20224 min read
Marie Antoinette Condemned to Death: October 14, 1793
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. It was fortunate for the revolutionary government...
Catholic Textbook Project
Sep 22, 20223 min read
Redshirts Invade St. Peter’s Patrimony: September 29, 1867
From our text, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World The pope’s army was very small—no more than four thousand men. It...
Catholic Textbook Project
Sep 16, 20224 min read
A Priest Leads a Peasants' Revolt: September 16-28, 1810
From our text, Lands of Hope and Promise, A History of North America. A group of creole intellectuals and army officers had been meeting...
Catholic Textbook Project
Sep 10, 20222 min read
A Coup the Sparked a Revolution: September 15, 1808
From our text, Lands of Hope and Promise, A History of North America. It was not conditions in New Spain that finally precipitated...
Catholic Textbook Project
Jun 14, 20222 min read
El Cid Conquers Valencia: June 15, 1094
Alfonso VI’s fame was surpassed only by one other man of his time, whom Spanish legend presents as a loyal soldier and vassal. He was...
Catholic Textbook Project
Jun 3, 20224 min read
Robespierre's Supreme Hour: June 8, 1794
While Paris ran with the blood of patriots, French arms continued to achieve victories against the republic’s enemies. By the spring of...
Catholic Textbook Project
May 27, 20223 min read
Voltaire’s Philosopher Becomes King: May 31, 1740
This week's "This Week in History" continues a story about Prince Fritz that we began last August, which you may read here. Reconciled at...
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May 20, 20223 min read
The Defenestration of Prague: May 23, 1618
Cardinal Richelieu wanted not only to make his king all-powerful in France, but to make France the supreme nation in Europe. To do this,...
Catholic Textbook Project
May 6, 20222 min read
The Passing of a Good Man: May 12, 2008
This year, May 12 marks the fourteenth anniversary of the death of the founding general editor of the Catholic Textbook Project, Dr....
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