The Death of Colonel John Laurens, 1782
Week of August 26
As the American War for Independence drew to a close, with the battle of Yorktown being a decisive victory the previous year, a young luminary of the conflict rose from his deathbed…
Week of August 26
As the American War for Independence drew to a close, with the battle of Yorktown being a decisive victory the previous year, a young luminary of the conflict rose from his deathbed…
Week of August 19
On August 19, 1812, an American legend was forged into being when the United States frigate, USS Constitution, met and defeated the British…
Week of August 12
On the 12th of August, 1919, esteemed statesman and Senate Majority Leader, Henry Cabot Lodge, rose to his feet on the floor…
Week of August 5
Britain in the six hundreds was a war-torn place. Gone were the days of Roman governance and provincial stability in previous centuries; here and now…
Week of July 29
On a blisteringly hot day in Philadelphia, after weeks of pleading and making…
Week of July 8
In the study of history, where resources of fundamental and priceless depth are at our disposal, few artifacts erase the alienation of...
Week of July 1
Perhaps the largest battle ever fought on English soil took place two years into England’s bloody Civil War. There the King of England, Charles I...
Week of June 3
Amongst the largely futile clamor that marked the early half of the Second Continental Congress, there rose to his feet the leading delegate...
Week of May 27
In his book The Man Who Presumed, Byron Farwell records that former Confederate soldier turned journalist-explorer, Henry Morton Stanley, upon meeting David Livingstone in...
Week of May 20
This summer, Landmark Events will be embarking on a tour of the old kingdom of Northumbria, a land once encompassing northern England and southern Scotland, with strategic...