Russia Becomes a Communist Dictatorship
When the United States entered World War 1, President Wilson had stated that America’s aim in taking up arms was “to make the world safe…
World History Volume
5000 Years of History.
World War I and the Peace that Failed
The soldier stood on the muddy “fire step” that reached, shelflike, the length of the deep trench. It was too dark to see his tired,…
Aeschylus
Play-acting had been developing at Athens since Peisistratus had introduced the Dionysia and the Panathenaea festivals; but to call it play-acting in the early stages…
Imperialism Affects the Moslem World
Slowly the train had puffed over the heights of the Lebanon Mountains. Now, at last, it was coasting down the eastern slope. Hasan Ali, an…
The British Empire Becomes the Commonwealth of Nations
On a January evening in 1896, a famous British statesman, Joseph Chamberlain, attended a banquet in honour of an Englishman about to go to Australia…
“Wooden Walls” and Salamis
After Thermopylae the Spartans were only interested in defending the Peloponnese. Their next line of defence was across the Isthmus of Corinth. The atmosphere on…
Thermopylae
The first narrow place where the Persians might have been held was the pass of Tempe in the north of Thessaly. A force was sent…
The Second Persian Invasion
Darius I died in 486. In the last years of his life he had no need of the slave who had whispered. “Sire, remember the…
The Rivals
After a battle there is a great deal of clearing up to be done. A small part of the Athenian force had been left behind…