3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (176+ words) Address: 102-7575 Trans-Canada Highway Montreal, QC H4T 1V6 Canada Copyright © 2026 TheCollector Following Pearl Harbor, Americans were impatient to strike back against Japan on their home turf. General James Doolittle’s daring raid fulfilled this nationwide desire. Although World War II began with Germany’s invasion…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (405+ words) In Uganda’s history, the specter of Idi Amin casts a long shadow. However, there is more to the country's history than just one man. In the years after Amin’s downfall, a power struggle broke out for control of the nation....

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (766+ words) If you are in the United States, these are the must-see, world-class museums and institutions that preserve the stories and archaeology of ancient civilizations. Located on the University of Chicago campus, the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC)…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (686+ words) TheCollector How the Privatization of English Land Triggered Centuries of Revolts In medieval England, common lands were set aside for peasants to cultivate. Chaos ensued when lords and landowners began selling them off for profit. - The privatization of common lands…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (265+ words) Ida B. Wells was a journalist, a Civil Rights advocate, and a suffragette. Her anti lynching campaign sparked the modern Civil Rights movement. A year after moving to Memphis, in 1884, while traveling by train, Ida B. Wells was asked by the conductor…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (583+ words) Pivotal events, including Stalin’s death, popular uprisings in Poland and Germany, and even a plane hijacking, all paved the way for the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Nikita Khrushchev denounced Joseph Stalin in a confidential speech to a select group of delegates in…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (954+ words) The five demands of the IRA that fueled the 1981 hunger strike in Northern Ireland. To quote McKittrick & McVea, this “ … meant that the IRA and other paramilitary groups were to be denied any acknowledgment of political motivation, and were to be…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (676+ words) Belle Boyd was a Confederate spy who, at the age of 17, used her family's business to gather information to send to Confederate Generals. Belle Boyd was born May 9, 1844, to Benjamin and Mary Boyd. She grew up in Martinsburg, Virginia (now…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (319+ words) TheCollector Why the Soviets Stopped the Largest Nuclear Bomb in History From Being Twice as Big The Soviet Union built a nuclear weapon thousands of times more powerful than Hiroshima, yet this monstrous “Tsar Bomba” helped usher in an era…...