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...

From our text, Lands of Hope and Promise, A History of North America. A group of creole intellectuals and army officers had been meeting...

From our text, Lands of Hope and Promise, A History of North America. It was not conditions in New Spain that finally precipitated...

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...

While Paris ran with the blood of patriots, French arms continued to achieve victories against the republic’s enemies. By the spring of...

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...

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,...

This year, May 12 marks the fourteenth anniversary of the death of the founding general editor of the Catholic Textbook Project, Dr....

The turn of the year 1863 found the Army of the Potomac mired in Virginia clay at Falmouth, on the left bank of the Rappahannock,...

Lincoln’s first task was to secure for the union the neutral border states — Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, and Missouri. Delaware, with...

Conditions did not improve when George IV became king in 1820. As regent for his insane father, George III, since 1811, George IV had...

Danton had not been in Paris when the National Convention declared war on Great Britain. Instead, he had gone on another mission to the...

When the the terrible Thirty Years War had only just begun, a young man took up a private struggle, a fearful struggle, of his own. This...

It was night. All was quiet in the Michailov Palace in St. Petersburg. The members of the imperial family were in their beds, asleep—all...

In May 1836, John C. Calhoun said: “there [are] powerful reasons why Texas should be part of this Union.” The southern states, he said,...

The elections for the two houses of the French legislative assembly on May 20, 1797, seemed to promise a long-awaited peace for the...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. The conclave that met to elect Pope Clement XIV’s...

This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. The secularization of mission lands, along with the...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations I: The History of Christian Civilization. The Council of Trent had been called to...

This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. In the months following the overthrow of the...