Germany is a country with one of the largest territorial losses in history, with part of her population living in the regions she lost. It was not as a result of secession or emancipation of any of her states, or of selling land to a neighboring nation, as in the case of Mexico, but of [...]

In history there are many paradoxes, or contradictions to expectations, since today people have the tendency to judge historical events or personalities through the misted glass of religious or ideological prejudices. -Today, when we speak of Latin people we think of the dark or olive-skinned people of Latin America, but in fact the real Latins [...]

Ancient Rome influence on the Western World was so great that the Roman Republic and Empire, along ancient Greece, has been called the cradle of our civilization. Despite the fall of the Roman Empire, as it was invaded by several Germanic tribes in the 5th and 6th centuries, and the eclipsing psychological power of Christianity, [...]

Robert E Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S Grant at McLean’s House, situated near the Old Appomattox Court House and Clover Hill Tavern, about 3 miles northeast of Appomattox town, Virginia, on April 9, 1865. The surrender did not take place in the Old Appomattox Court House because it was closed as it was Palm [...]

The United States of America started off its post war hegemony in August 1945, with the dropping of two atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima and the other on Nagasaki, which ended World War II. Of course, it was not the destructive effect of the bomb blasts that had catapulted the USA to the world’s leadership, [...]

The North won the Civil War because it had a stronger economy and more financial resources than the South to finance the logistics their armies needed. Being industrialized, the Union States had gun factories and shipyards. They also had at their disposal the main energy source for those days; coal. The rich anthracite coal fields [...]