Lincoln Secures Nomination: Path to Presidency Opens

The dole came with an address requirement—you had to live in Constantinople to eat. Constantine's free grain distributions started in 332, and suddenly everyone…

Louis II waited twenty-eight years between his first and second coronations as Holy Roman Emperor. First crowned at age nineteen while his father Lothair still …

The bishop tried to hide them in his palace cellar. For two days, Bishop Adalbert of Worms sheltered around 800 Jews from crusader mobs whipped up by Count Emic…

Eight weeks after her first marriage dissolved, Eleanor was already remarried—this time to a duke eleven years younger who'd inherit half of France and all of E…

Baibars sent a letter to the Count of Antioch describing, in present tense, exactly what his soldiers were doing to the city's residents while the count sat saf…

Mamluk forces breached the walls of Acre, ending two centuries of Crusader control in the Levant. This collapse forced the remaining Latin Christians to evacuat…