Augustine was said; why was he beaten again today? He hated school even though he was always the first one to finish his lesson. Playing and fighting he loved very much. Would this boy ever become …
"The Great God." he said, "has become one with his father. See the wand of succession. It has declared his choice." The priests, the warriors, the many wives and children, fell upon their knees. Ta…
When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #47 Abe Lincoln at Last! they had lots of questions. What was it like to grow up in a log cabin? How did Lincoln become pres…
The creators of National Geographic kids, the nation's most popular kids' magazine, bring you 300 wacky facts about the olden days. Who knew that history could be so weird?
In March of 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. On the outside, in while paint, were these words:"Hana Brady" and "Waisenkind" - the German word for…
There was a time that Sergeant Alvin C. York was a household name in America. Perhaps many of you recognize the name from the motion picture of Sergeant York as protrayed by Gary Cooper. Needless t…
Herodotus was born at Halicarnassus, 484 BC, and died at Thurium in Italy, about the year 425. As in the case of Plutarch, our knowledge of his personal history is very meagre, aside from the littl…
Livy dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first five of which comprise The Early History of Rome. With stylistic brilliance, he chronicles nearly 400 years of hist…
Gilgamesh is the great epic of Mesopotamia, one of the oldest woks in Western literature, contemporary with the oldest parts of the Bible. It is the story of a legendary king who achieves heroic vi…