The Blog of Jeffrey Evan Brooks

It's a presidential election year and it has already proven to be one of the most bizarre elections in living memory. I know for whom I...

Last Wednesday was the seventy-fifth anniversary of the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany. If I made a list of mistakes to avoid ...

A week-and-a-half ago, the world commemorated the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of the First ...

It probably won't surprise any readers of my blog that most of my spare time - the time not taken up in being a full-time teacher, write...

Five hundred and sixty-three years ago today, Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks after an epic siege that lasted fifty-three days. It ...

If I asked the average educated American to list three things about Thomas Jefferson, they would probably tell me that he was President of t...

One of the most fascinating episodes of the American Civil War was Jubal Early's Raid on Washington. It really should be made into a mov...