404 BC. For 27 years, the Greek cities have been at war, a “war like no other” that has tested the very limits of its culture and...

December 29, 1890. The frontier is closed. The days of the Old West, of pioneer trains and wild boom towns, are at an end. One last...

December 28, 1958. A small force of guerrillas descends from the hills around Havana, on their way to confront ten times their number of...

December 27, 1979. It’s a tale as old as time. A global superpower sees chaos and turmoil in Afghanistan as a threat to its interests,...

December 26, 1776. The United States of America is about to be smothered in its crib. After the loss of New York and numerous defeats,...

December 25, 1914. Across the wintry fields of France and Belgium, a Christmas miracle occurs. The land between the trenches goes quiet,...

DECEMBER 24 - 23 AD. He is called the first socialist, a visionary and sacrificing ruler who sought to implement the truest promises of...

December 23, 1688. King James II has been fired. Well, kinda. When James took the thrones of England and Scotland four years ago, he was...

December 22, 1944. It was a small Belgian town that no one had ever heard of, off the beaten trail of Europe’s great highways and in a...

December 21, 1864. After only a few short skirmishes, the tired Union soldiers of General Sherman’s army enter the city of Savannah,...

DECEMBER 20 - 411 BC. The city of Athens is in serious trouble. It has wasted much of its military strength in the disastrous Sicilian...

December 19, 1944. The senior Allied commanders meet in a bunker near Verdun, France to discuss the issue on everyone’s mind: how to stop...

December 18, 1271. The Mongols have gone native. After decades of conquest and exploitation ranging from Korea to Poland, from Iran to...

December 17, 1944. The Battle of the Bulge rages, and the Germans are racing full-throttle through the snowy trails of the Ardennes...

December 16, 1944. The Ardennes Forest was supposed to be a quiet sector of the American line, but that illusion is shattered when German...

December 15, 1864. The Confederacy stares into its grave. General John Bell Hood and his Army of Tennessee have trekked into Tennessee in...

December 14, 1812. It has been almost six months since Napoleon’s Grande Armee ́ invaded Russia, almost 450,000 strong. Today, it...

December 13, 1862. What happens when you fire your terrible employee, but the new guy is even worse? The Union is about to find out when...

December 12, 627 AD. The final showdown is here. For over 25 years, the two greatest empires of the civilized world – the Byzantine...

December 11, 1899. The British Army thought this would be a pushover. What could a bunch of South African farmers do against the might of...