Amidst the ongoing chaos of the American Civil War, in 1863 and 1864, the Union Army conducted two major military campaigns against the Lakota and Dakota peoples in the Dakota Territory, in present day North Dakota. Often forgotten by the historical circle, overshadowed by the American Civil War, these military campaigns are labeled as the “punitive expeditions.” The term implies that these operations were limited reprisals for specific acts of violence committed by Native gr

The Korean War is also referred to as “the Forgotten War” as it is often overshadowed by World War II given it started a mere five years after the end of the biggest war the world has ever known. The United States led United Nations troops of several nations in an interference of a civil war in the Korean Peninsula following an invasion from the communist north into the pro-capitalist south. From 1950 until 1953, the U.N coalition battled North Koreans and Chinese troops for

The United States Military has a short but extremely successful history. From defeating England in the Revolutionary War, founding a nation from nothing to fighting a massive Civil War, on the eve of military and societal innovations and keeping the nation together to creating an Empire after the Spanish-American war and beyond with victory in both World Wars, the United States is unmatched in its military prowess today and it’s culturally rich history of warfare. While the U

The American Revolutionary War famously started in the northern colony of Massachusetts, with the battles of Lexington and Concord when armed militia exchanged fire with British Regulars sent to confiscate the militia’s cache of weapons. The famous “shot heard around the world” had immediate severe consequences, as in less than 24 hours British held Boston was under siege by over 20,000 Massachusetts Militia. The British would withdraw from Boston and establish a new base of

The 16th Century rewrote the map of global power—and one of its most decisive turning points came not in Europe, but off the coast of India. While the Islamic Mamluk and Ottoman empires dominated the eastern trade routes and much of the Mediterranean world, a small kingdom on the Atlantic fringe of Europe quietly built the world’s first global empire: Portugal. Its rise, and the naval Battle of Diu in 1509, would shift the balance of power from the Islamic world to Christian

Christianity has played a pivotal role in the development of America since colonial times. It is often discussed in historical circles the role that Quaker, Protestant, Baptist, and Evangelical theological thinking had on the men that would go on to become the Founding Fathers of the United States. These Christian denominations influenced the lives of not only the founding fathers but a large number of men in colonial America so much that it is undeniable that it played a par