History Articles List

The History Articles List

Period I - The Ancient Age (pre-500 BCE)

Heaven Can Wait by Stefan Haertel (14 Jul 04)
The Egyptian New Kingdom Army by Knight-Dragon (13 Aug 03)
The Servants in the Place of Truth by Knight-Dragon (16 Aug 03)
The Hittite Army 1600-717 BC by Cimbri (14 Aug 03)
The Trojan-era Armies by Xen (14 Jun 03)
The Mysterious 'Sea Peoples' - Vikings of the late Bronze Age, or refugees? by vogtmurr (20 Mar 11)
Chariots of War - The Sassy Assyrians by Xen (23 Aug 03)
The Babylonians Up Close and Personal by Xen (24 Aug 03)
A Brief Overview of Artifacts pertaining to the Hebrew Bible by LightSpectra (11 Mar 09)


Period II - The Age of Empires (500 BCE - 500 CE)

Classical Athenian Democracy - A critical Discussion by Ciceronian (15 Oct 05)
The Athenian Empire - A critical Evaluation by Ciceronian (27 Jan 06)
Thebes in the Age of Pelopidas and Epaminondas : Some Questions Considered by calgacus (17 Aug 03)
The Career of Philip II - King of Macedon (360/59 - 336) by calgacus (15 Jul 03)
Alexander the Great - A Biography by amirsan (3 Feb 04)
Great Battles - Granicus; Alexander's Gateway to Asia by Xen (29 Sep 03)
Defeat from Victory: the Diadochi in Iran, 318-6 BC(E) by Dachs (1 Mar 09)
The Diadochi by pawpaw (28 Feb 09)
Social Revolution at Sparta: The Story of Cleomenes III by Dachs (19 Jan 09)
Taking Care of Business the Seleucid Way by calgacus (17 Aug 03)
Mauryan India by Otakumonkey (16 Aug 03)
Hamilcar Barca by markdienekes (4 Jun 11)
Outbreak of the Second Punic War by Ciceronian (19 Sep 05)
The Army of Carthage During Hannibal's Time by markdienekes (1 Jun 11)
Struggle for A New China : Liu Bang vs Xiang Yu by Knight-Dragon (21 Jul 03)
Birth of the Roman War Machine by Xen (13 Jun 03)
The Dacians by Xen (9 Aug 03)
Pontius Pilate by Otakumonkey (16 Aug 03)
Carausius and the first British Empire by Plotinus (1 Nov 06)
Three Kingdoms and the spread of Han Chinese by Uiler (24 Sep 04)
The Late Roman to Mid-Byzantine Army by Xen (12 Jun 03)
Much Ado About Nothing by Stefan Haertel (30 Jun 04)
The Seleucid Empire by christos200 (17 Sep 16)
Indo-Greeks: The Greek Buddhist Kings by christos200 (19 Sep 16)

Miscellaneous
Lands of Africa - Blemmye or Nobades (30 BCE - 650 CE) by Xen (1 Oct 03)
The Early Vandals by Xen (26 Sep 03)
The Glory of Greece by Xen (14 Jun 03)

Period III - The Medieval Age (500 CE - 1500 CE)

Asia
Ritual in the Imperial Court: The Tang Dynasty by The Yankee (6 Jun 04)
The New Number Two by Stefan Haertel (16 Jul 04)
Paying for Government the Imperial Chinese Way by Knight-Dragon (9 Dec 03)
The Day the Jurchens Erupted into History by Knight-Dragon (16 Jul 03)
"Return us our Rivers and Mountain" by Knight-Dragon (16 Aug 03)
The Mongols! - The Devil's Horsemen! (14 Oct 03)
Go West and Conquer! - The Price of an Insult by Knight-Dragon (21 Aug 03)
The Mongol Conquest of the Southern Song by Knight-Dragon (17 Aug 03)
Kublai Khan and the Pax Mongolica by Otakumonkey (16 Aug 03)
The Red Turbans: Religious Syncretists and Sectarian Rebels by Knight-Dragon (27 May 04)
The Great Mughals : Babur [1483-1530] by allhailIndia (19 Oct 03)

W Europe
The Real King Arthur Was Gay by Kafka2 (25 Nov 03)
End of the Visigoths in Hispania and the beginning of the Kingdom of Asturias by Thorgalaeg (26 Oct 05)
The Irish Myth about Scotland? by calgacus (10 Mar 04)
Revenge is best served cold by Plotinus (21 Jul 04)
England's Greatest King - Athelstan the Bastard by Kafka2 (2 Feb 04)
Historical Filth - How England Was Unified by Kafka2 (27 Sep 03)
The Black Widow of Orkney by Kafka2 (14 Jul 07)
The Heliand as a Source for Carolingian Society and Values by LightSpectra (16 Feb 11)
Blood, Guts and Spunk - The Story of Harald Hardrada by Kafka2 (1 Sep 03)
The Battle of Stamford Bridge by Kafka2 (17 Jul 07)
History of Norway, Part I - The Viking Age by thetrooper (14 Jun 04)
The Fire of the Middle Ages by Otakumonkey (16 Aug 03)
The Sordid Tale of Sawney Bean by Kafka2 (5 Jun 03)
The First Crusade! (22 Sep 03)
The Crusades (28 Sep 03)
Food in 12th-century Flanders by Taliesin (28 Jan 06)
Sifting through the Legend of Prester John (8 Dec 05)
Gothic Architecture by Constantine (24 Aug 03)
The Battle of Las Navas de Tolsa by silver 2039 (6 Dec 04)
The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa by Thorgalaeg (19 May 07)
El Gran Capitan by pawpaw (28 Feb 09)

E Europe
The Rus! - The Story of Russian Beginnings by Xen (26 Sep 03)
The Story of the Lajkonik by Vrylakas (15 Jul 03)
Catastrophe: the Byzantine Civil War of the 1340s by Dachs (30 Apr 09)
Grünwald: The Eastern Bannockburn by Vrylakas (16 Jul 03)
The Core of Serbian Identity : The Battle of Kosovo by Otakumonkey (16 Aug 03)

Middle East
The Vandals of North Africa by Xen (23 Sep 03)
The Rise of Islam by Knight-Dragon (14 Aug 03)
At Dagger's Point by pawpaw (11 Aug 03)
Great Battles - Dorylaeum; First Great Battle of the Crusades by Xen (29 Sep 03)
The Battle at the Horns of Hattin by aaminion00 (12 Dec 03)
The Battle of the Horns of Hattin : Ager Sanguinis by LouLong (17 Dec 03)
The Rise of the Ottomans by Knight-Dragon (16 Aug 03)

Americas
The Inca! by Xen (23 Sep 03)

Period IV - The Dawn of A New Age (1500 CE - 1815 CE)

St. Thomas More’s Utopia and its Implicit Criticisms of Renaissance Values by LightSpectra (16 Apr 11)
Sher Shah Suri : The Man Who Would Almost Be Emperor by allhailIndia (26 Oct 03)
Lope de Aguirre, Wrath of God by Thorgalaeg (29 Oct 05)
Ivan the Terrible: Autocrat Incarnate? by calgacus (28 Oct 04)
The extent to which the arrival of the Portugese impacted the Vijaynagar Empire by silver 2039 (4 Aug 08)
Yi Sun-Sin and Turtle Ships by pawpaw (23 Dec 04)
The Carracci and Caravaggio Revolutions: Foundations of the Baroque by Cheezy the Wiz (1 May 09)
Rise to Power : Tokugawa Ieyasu by Knight-Dragon (11 Feb 04)
The Battle of Sekigahara by Flying Pig (22 May 09)
Flight Of The Earls by Cullyn (11 Aug 05)
"Freedom of Belief for All the World": Gustav Adolf in Germany (Part I) by Dachs (5 Nov 09)
Wu Sangui - Villified Traitor, Opportunist, Or Victim of Circumstances? by Knight-Dragon (15 Jul 03)
The Manchus' Mongol Connection by Knight-Dragon (20 Aug 03)
On the Sinification of the Manchu Qing Dynasty - An Evaluation by BananaLee (18 Mar 09)
The Impossible Dream: How England and the Netherlands went from Talk of Union to War by BananaLee (29 Oct 09)
The Victory That Was Not A Victory by Vrylakas (20 Jul 03)
"Asia begins at the Landstrasse…" by Vrylakas (16 Jul 03)
The Origin and Apex of Prussian Militarism, pt. I by LightSpectra (23 Oct 10)
The Great Northern War 1700-1721 by Reno (19 Apr 06)
Nadir Shah by pawpaw (19 Dec 04)
Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta, a Spanish hero by yaroslav (13 Jun 04)
A Powerful Paragraph by Vrylakas (16 Jul 03)
The Story of the US Constitution by Serutan (18 Sep 04)
The Battle of Groton Heights by CivGeneral (28 Dec 03)
Banastre "Bloody" Tarleton: The most underrated cavalry leader by BOTP (26 Sep 04)
Cowpens: The American Cannae by BOTP (28 Sep 04)
Nathaniel Greene: 1st Rate Strategist by BOTP (29 Sep 04)
Revolution or Revodoution? The French Revolution and the Haïtian Revolution by BananaLee (13 Feb 09)
A Man Who Changed America's Economy (26 Sep 03)
Spain, Suchet, and the Lessons Learnt by insurgent (18 Jun 04)
Waterloo Mythology by privatehudson (15 Jun 04)
Napoleonic Trivia: Generals by privatehudson (12 Nov 04)
Vive la Différence! : The Effect of the Implementation of the Code Napoléon by Israelite9191 (13 Apr 08)
Losing Finland: The Arch-traitor of Swedish History by Verbose (19 Jan 05)


Period V - The Industrial Age (1815 CE - 1914 CE)

A Flame Burns in Cuzco: The First Nations of the Andes during the Andean Revolutions by Israelite9191 (15 Sep 06)
The Strange Tale of Kaspar Hauser (21 Jul 04)
James K. Polk -- 11th President of the United States by SeleucusNicator (17 Jun 04)
Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States by SeleucusNicator (24 Feb 04)
The Great Filibuster by pawpaw (20 Dec 04)
The Causes of the 1848 Revolution by Camikaze (28 Feb 09)
Dumb vs Dumber: The Election of 1852 by SeleucusNicator (30 Jun 04)
The Mormon War (18 Sep 03)
The Crimean War by Flying Pig (9 May 09)
The Confederate Advantages at the Beginning of the Civil War by Gogf (19 May 04)
The Causes of the American Civil War by YNCS (4 Jun 05)
Battle of the Crater, 1864 by YotoKiller (28 Jul 04)
Triple Alliance War by luiz (28 May 05)
The Amateur Colonel of Curupayty by Kafka2 (31 May 05)
Forrest and Wilson: The development of cavalry in the ACW by BOTP (2 Dec 04)
A Decision and A Sentence that Helped Save America by Serutan (27 Jul 03)
Merseyside and the American Civil War by privatehudson (22 Jun 06)
Clash of the Ironclads by pawpaw (22 Dec 04)
Te Kooti by Furious (24 Jul 03)
Naval Warfare during the Franco-Prussian War (1870- 1871) by Adler17 (10 Feb 06)
Tales from the Wild West part one: Kidology by privatehudson (31 Jul 04)
Tales from the Wild West part two: The Deadly Dentist by privatehudson (5 Sep 04)
The War of the Pacific
Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States by SeleucusNicator (14 Jul 05)
The Victorian Governess: A Paradox of Her Time by Cheezy the Wiz (11 Sep 07)
Boom in the Night: A Discourse on Gas Lighting in Victorian Britain by BananaLee (12 Jun 09)
Canadian History Articles: Laurier Era by silver 2039 (16 Mar 06)
America's First Forgotten War: The Philippine-American War by El Justo (1 Jun 06)
Battle of Nanshan : Precursor of the Future? by Thorgrimm (30 Jan 04)
Hitler and Art by Ukas (15 Mar 06)
The First and Second Balkan Wars by Reno (20 Nov 04)
At the Precipice: the United Kingdom and the Home Rule Crisis, 1912-1914 by Dachs (30 Apr 10)

Miscellaneous
The Mistake of German Naval Policy: 1888-1918 by Cheezy the Wiz (2 Mar 09)
America's Only Emperor: Norton I (17 Mar 04)
A History of Schleswig-Holstein by Adler17 (4 Mar 04)
Living on a Razor's Edge by Stefan Haertel (13 Mar 04)

Period VI - WWI: The War to End All Wars (1914 CE - 1918 CE)

90 Years of Contemplation: The Origins of World War I by Vrylakas (30 Jul 04)
The Schlieffen Plan by YNCS (6 Mar 05)
Keeping the Right Wing Strong: Historians and the Schlieffen Plan by Dachs (22 Oct 10)
Battle of Jutland by Adler17 (31 May 06)
The Battle of the Bees by Adler17 (23 Dec 04)
The Zimmermann Telegram by YNCS (20 Jun 05)


Period VII - The Inter-war Years (1918 CE - 1939 CE)

A Piece of Tape in History by Vrylakas (16 Jul 03)
A Trotskyist Soviet Union by Vladyc (13 Jun 06)
Forgotten Wars : The Russo-Polish War by naervod (7 Sep 03)
The Naval Disarmanent Treaties by YNCS (8 Dec 03)
The Gran Chaco War: Fighting for Mirages in the Foothills of the Andes by Provolution (23 Nov 04)
The Meaning of Guernica by Arwon (11 Mar 08)


Period VIII - WWII (1939 CE - 1945 CE)

Neville Chamberlain: Naive, appeasing fool, or ruthless, calculating strategist? by wildWolverine (28 Jun 05)
Japan's War in China by joespaniel (23 Jul 03)
Clash in Mongolia by pawpaw (9 Jan 05)
The Last Gasp: Bzura River, 1939 by Vrylakas (28 Aug 03)
The Battle of Narvik by Provolution (14 Dec 04)
The Greatest Betrayal: France's collaboration in WWII by nonconformist (29 Jul 09)
Fighting for Black Gold : Operations in the Middle East (1940-1941) by naervod (15 Aug 03)
Through the Throat of Hell by Adler17 (17 Nov 05)
The Flying Tigers by wildWolverine (16 Apr 04)
Tell Them of Us - The British in Burma, 1941-5 by Flying Pig (28 Jun 11)
Operation Biting – The Red Devils Win Their Spurs by privatehudson (9 Sep 08)
Zhukov, Manstein, and their Masterful Battles of the Eastern Front by Cheezy the Wiz (27 Feb 09)
The Secret War - Behind the Scenes of WWII by Flying Pig (4 May 09)
Operation Citadel (July 1943) by joespaniel (15 Jul 04)
Who Rescued Mussolini? by privatehudson (21 Dec 04)
The Assault on Saipan (1944) by joespaniel (17 Jul 04)
In honor of the brave participants of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 by Kamilian1 (2 Aug 04)
The Last Flight of the Eagle by privatehudson (15 Dec 04)
Debunking the Kamikaze Myth by Oda Nobunaga (22 Aug 03)
The escape of the "Rugard" or the last fight of the Kriegsmarine by Adler17 (22 May 05)
The American Use of the Atomic Bombs by nonconformist (25 Jul 07)

Miscellaneous
The Wehrmacht at a Glance by nonconformist (1 Aug 04)
Propaganda and WWII by WildFire (17 Mar 04)


Period IX - The Modern Era (1945 CE - 1990 CE)

Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill, De Gaulle by Marla Singer (26 Aug 04)
Beg, Borrow, Steal Part 1: The formation of Israel's Armoured Forces by privatehudson (27 Jul 04)
Beg, Borrow, Steal Part 2: The formation of Israel's Air Force by privatehudson (7 Aug 04)
The Korean War: Phase I by Knight-Dragon (11 Nov 04)
The Korean War: The People's Liberation Army (1950) by Knight-Dragon (11 Nov 04)
The Korean War: The Chinese Road to War by Knight-Dragon (17 Nov 04)
The Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteers; Through the Gates of Hell by Knight-Dragon (20 Nov 04)
Adenauer in Moscow, September 1955 by Adler17 (6 Sep 05)
Not Quite Mandalay - the Suez Emergency 1951-6 by Flying Pig (29 Jan 11)
"The Army will not follow orders…" by Vrylakas (16 Jul 03)
The Congo, Cannibals and Wild Geese by pawpaw (24 Jan 05)
1962 India-China War (9 Mar 04)
The Battle of Assal Uttar - Indo Pak War 1965 by allhailIndia (7 May 05)
Was Vietnam Misunderstood? by Bugfatty300 (20 May 04)
The U.S. in Vietnam by YNCS (3 Jun 06)
The My Lai Massacre by YNCS (13 Jun 06)
Traumatized Vietnam Veterans by YNCS (16 Jun 06)
Third Pakistan-India War (9 Mar 04)
Operation Badr by Adler17 (31 May 06)
Historical Filth- Coups, Coelacanths and Mercenary Kingdoms by Kafka2 (14 Dec 03)
The Partido Comunista Española in the transition to democracy by Arwon (12 Mar 08)
The Falklands War by Flying Pig (29 Apr 09)

Miscellaneous
LEO by Dell19 (26 May 06)
M-16 and AK-47 by Bugfatty300 (1 Aug 04)
North Korea: America's Forgotten Enemy: The Post-war Years by Bugfatty300 (21 Jul 04)
The Truth That Killed : Georgi Markov by Vrylakas (8 Aug 03)
Medieval History in Kentucky by Vrylakas (16 Jul 03)

Various Non-Categorizable in Above

Asia
An Evaluative Essay on Mark Elvin's "High Level Equilibrium Trap" - Chinese Economy by BananaLee (13 Feb 09)
Ancient Chinese Soldiers (24 May 07)
Fakirs and Saddhus by Rambuchan (18 Aug 05)
The Caste System Explained by allhailIndia (6 Oct 03)
The Glories of Sogdiana (26 Sep 03)
History of Siberia (28 Aug 03)
Ancient Military of India by Kshatriya (20 Aug 03)

West Europe
Who Dares Wins by Flying Pig (24 Sep 09)
Utrinque Paratus - The British Parachute Regiment by Flying Pig (18 Apr 09)
Putting Pen to Papal: An Analysis of the Assertion of Power by the Medieval Papacy by BananaLee (6 Apr 09)
Vive la France ou Vive l’Italie? : An Exploration of the Trans-Alpine Roots of Haute by Israelite9191 (10 Mar 08)
Historical Filth- Sexytime with the Saxe-Coburgs by Kafka2 (5 Jul 07)
Gerald Gardner and modern witchcraft by Plotinus (1 Nov 06)
Norse mythology part II: A war and the consequences thereof by luceafarul (8 Dec 05)
Norse mythology: The creation of the world by luceafarul (16 Nov 05)
Historical Filth- Honourable Members by Kafka2 (1 Sep 05)
Historical Filth - When Popes Attack! by Kafka2 (19 Dec 04)
The History of Portugal (27 Nov 04)
Historical Filth - Hellraisers of the 18th Century by Kafka2 (27 Jun 04)
Celtica and the Celts by BorgeoisBuffoon (18 Jun 04)
Historical Filth - Priapic Princes and Confused Kids by Kafka2 (11 May 04)
Historical Filth - Five Weird Weddings by Kafka2 (20 Feb 04)
A History of the Portuguese by Rolo Master (14 Feb 04)
History of Savoy by Steph (20 Jan 04)
Scotland and the World Before the Union by calgacus (4 Dec 03)
The Highland Clan Wars by Kafka2 (21 Sep 03)
The Hardest Life - St Kilda by Kafka2 (24 Mar 03)
Historical Filth - The Worst Job in History by Kafka2 (15 Dec 02)

East Europe
Epicureanism by Ciceronian (8 Oct 06)
Janissaries by Tunch Khan (12 Feb 06)
Expansion of the Greek State after its War of Independence by varwnos (13 Oct 05)
A History of Sarajevo by aaminion00 (21 Aug 04)
The Macedonians: Who were they? Who are they? by Companiero (15 Jun 04)
Hungary - A 'Brief' Outline by Vrylakas (1 Aug 03)

Middle East
The History of Ancient Iran by Stefan Haertel (17 Jul 03)
Historical Filth - Psychotic Sultans and Vile Viziers by Kafka2 (6 Jan 03)
A History of Saudi Arabia by Ahmad (13 Dec 02)

Americas
Lexington Light Infantry (27 Jul 04)
Historical Filth - The Worst Place on Earth by Kafka2 (4 Mar 03)

Oceania
The Fate of a Nation by Stefan Haertel (26 Sep 03)

Miscellaneous
Per Suum Oculus: Mentalities in the Study of Medieval History by BananaLee (10 Jun 09)
The 10 most notable modern military strategists by vogtmurr (8 Apr 09)
History of economic thought, II – the classical economists by innonimatu (15 Dec 08)
History of economic thought, I – Mercantilists and Physiocrats by innonimatu (19 Oct 08)
A Brief History of Rocketry from 100AD - 1800AD by Rambuchan (20 Sep 06)
20th-Century Philosophy: An Introduction by Lockesdonkey (16 Aug 06)
Classical Archaeology - An Introduction by Ciceronian (18 Jan 06)
History of Warfare by Dreadnought (11 Oct 05)
Historical Criminal Cases by Adler17 (25 Sep 05)
"Imago Mundi" (The Image of The World) by Rambuchan (20 Sep 05)
The Divide & Rule Thread - Definition & Compendium by Rambuchan (25 Jun 05)
A Guide to the 535AD Catastrophe Theory by Kafka2 (17 Apr 2005)
Top 15 Campaigns in Military History by BOTP (29 Nov 04)
Top 25 Greatest Tactical Feats by BOTP (16 Nov 04)
Historical Filth- The Nutty Professors by Kafka2 (17 Oct 04)
A Tale of Two Conquerors by wildWolverine (20 Apr 04)
Get a Head by Stefan Haertel (20 Aug 03)
Different Types of Armies by YNCS (16 Aug 03)
Historical Filth - Women fr Hell by Kafka2 (12 Jan 03)
Historical Filth - Eunuchs with Balls by Kafka2 (13 Dec 02)