Picture a skinny finger of Maryland dirt sticking into the Chesapeake like a dare. On one side, Bear Creek. On the other, a tidal trickle...
On the morning of September 8, 1380, a field of sandpipers and oak groves south of the Don River went quiet. The birds that gave...
Picture the coastal plain of Palestine just after dawn on 7 September 1191. The Mediterranean is a hard blue wall on the right. On the...
On the morning of September 6 in the year 394, in a narrow alpine valley that most maps still cannot agree how to name, the...
On the morning of 5 September 394, in a narrow, wind-scoured valley on the eastern edge of Italy, two Roman armies that no longer recognized...
On the last day of August in the year 929, a Saxon army under two counts arrived at a Slavic fortress called Lunkini—Lenzen to later...
On a Friday in late August 1071, on a dusty plain north of Lake Van in what is now eastern Turkey, a Roman emperor lost...
On the morning of August 25, 1630, in the rolling hills and paddy fields near the village of Randeniwela, not far from Wellawaya in the...
On a hot, dusty plain called Marj Dabiq—“the meadow of Dabiq”—about forty-four kilometers north of Aleppo in what is now northern Syria, two great Muslim...
On a sweltering late-summer day in 1595, in a stretch of Wallachian marshland that most travelers would have preferred to avoid, a force that should...
