historyisnowmagazine.comadded August 2026
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine23h ago
The Confederate victory at Second Manassas, August 28-30, 1862, followed victories in the Valley Campaign and the Peninsula.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine2d ago
Honoring the past is a historian’s greatest task, with a truly noble purpose: preserving the memory of those who shaped the world.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine3d ago
On a cold January afternoon in 1649, the executioner's axe severed far more than the head of King Charles I. It also shattered centuries of political tradition.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine6d ago
A little-known aspect of history revolves around the Christian Samurai of medieval Japan. Some might know that Pope Francis beatified the feudal medieval Japanese daimyo Justo Takayama Ukon...
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine7d ago
The 1847 Battle of Buena Vista was part of the Mexican-American War. It involved hard fighting between US forces led by General Zachary Taylor and Mexican forces General Antonio López de Santa...
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine9d ago
The Avignon Papacy (1309-1376) was the period during which seven successive popes resided at Avignon, in modern-day southern France, rather than at Rome.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine13d ago
History is not just found in museums or far-off exotic locations — it can be discovered close to home.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine14d ago
The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education on May 17, 1954, is often treated as a clear dividing line in American civil rights history.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine15d ago
For millennia humans have risked fortunes to make more profit, increase status, and achieve security.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine16d ago
France spent a decade and billions of francs building the Maginot Line along its German frontier, only for the German invasion of 1940 to drive straight past it.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine18d ago
The defeat of King Charles I in the English Civil War marked the end of one phase of England's greatest constitutional crisis, but it did not bring the peace that exhausted soldiers and civilians...
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine20d ago
An elusive St. Louis entrepreneur and a revolutionary partnership transformed a crude hand accessory into baseball’s most sentimental tool. Brian D’Ambrosio explains. A. C. Spalding & Bros.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine20d ago
What caused the American Civil War, and why did the Southern states leave the Union? These are two of the most debated questions in American history.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine23d ago
The Swedish colonial empire is not often discussed in the context of European colonialism; however, the powerful country of Sweden did hold territories across the Americas, Africa, and Asia.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine27d ago
What is it about the west? Why is country music listened to in every corner, region, city, small town, and house across the United States?
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine28d ago
The largest slave rebellion in US history took place in Louisiana in 1811. Here, Husain H. Roussel looks at the background, including the slave rebellion in Haiti, and what happened in Louisiana –...
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine22 Jul 2026
The Confederate victory at Second Manassas, August 28-30, 1862, followed victories in the Valley Campaign and the Peninsula.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine18 Jul 2026
A 26-year-old Union brigade commander risked being court-martialed when, without orders, he rushed his four regiments to the summit of an undefended hill at a crucial moment during the Battle of...
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine17 Jul 2026
The War of the Breton Succession, or Breton War of Succession (1341–1365), was a war over the succession to the dukes of Brittany, in north-western France, that lasted for over twenty years.
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine14 Jul 2026
In 1951 Che Guevara was still known as Ernesto Guevara de la Serna. To his friends and family, he was a restless young man, still undecided about his life's direction, who constantly craved...
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