Picture this: It’s April 20, 1290, in the lush meadows just outside Winchester, the ancient capital of Anglo-Saxon kings. Trumpets blare, banners snap in the...
Picture this: It’s April 19, 1012, in the muddy flats of Greenwich on the Thames. The air reeks of salt, smoke, and spilled southern wine....
On a spring day in 133 BC, high on the acropolis of Pergamon in what is now western Turkey, a 37-year-old king named Attalus III...
On April 17, 1362—Holy Saturday, the day before Easter—the Teutonic Order’s Grand Master Winrich von Kniprode stood amid the smoking ruins of Kaunas Castle and...
Picture this: it’s April 16, 1457 BC, and the dust of the Jezreel Valley is already thick enough to choke a chariot horse. A 30-something...
On April 15, 1450, in a muddy Norman field near the sleepy village of Formigny, something seismic cracked open the medieval world. No kings dueled...
On April 14, 43 BC, the narrow road slicing through the marshes of northern Italy near a sleepy waystation called Forum Gallorum ran slick with...
Picture this: April 13, 1204. The Golden Horn shimmers under a fickle spring sky. Massive Venetian war galleys, their decks packed with knights in chainmail...
Imagine a sleepy river town in the spring of 1776. Roanoke River lazily winds past clapboard houses and a handful of taverns. Powdered-wigged gentlemen in...
Picture this: Philadelphia, April 11, 1783. The air still carried the faint tang of woodsmoke from winter fires. Delegates in threadbare coats shuffled into the...
