Hartman History Page

Hartman History Page

"wherein we attempt to condense some of the more interesting events of human existence into a page or two..." (click Here for more on our strategy)

How To Remember Historical Events

Really Ancient (Unrecorded) History

The Last Ice Age

The Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age

History Begins at Sumer...

The Iron Age: What Does It Mean?

The Phoenicians: Great Seafarers and More

Greek Mythology Simplified

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Troy and the Trojan War

Greek Civilization Encapsulated

Our Debt to Themistocles

The Etruscans - Ancestors of the Roman Empire

The Amazons - Not a Myth

A Short History of the Roman Empire

Cleopatra: A Greek in Egypt

The Parthians: Little Known Empire Builders

The Sarmatians: Link to the King Arthur Legend?

A Short History of Early England

Untangling the Germanic Migrations

A Short History of The Vikings

St. Patrick and the Irish Contribution

Stephen - the Unknown King

Arthur of the Britons - the Once and Future King

The Cultural Legacy of Charlemagne

Genghis Khan and the Largest Empire in the World

The Crusades: We only won the first one

The Hundred Years War

Who Was Catherine Swynford?

The Bacon Brothers - Roger and Francis

Columbus: brave enough to go where no one else would

Who Was Guy Fawkes?

Nicolaus Copernicus and the Copernican Revolution

Magellan's Place in History

The Ottoman Empire: Large and Lengthy

Machiavelli - Father of Modern Political Science

The Gregorian Calendar

The Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Creole Languages

Terra Australis Incognita

The Voyages of Captain James Cook

The "Seven Years War" - Start of the British Empire

All You Need to Know About the French Revolution

The First Thanksgiving in America

The Attack on Pearl Harbor

A Railroad Track is the Width of Two Horses

Historical Origins of French Cuisine

How the Days of the Week Got Their Names...

The Measurement of Time

Better Late Than Never . . .

Public school education has been in steep decline for 30 years, graduating young people under the presumption that they have actually Learned something when all they have had is a multi-year indoctrination into the correct Attitudes expected to be held on certain social situations. It is only many years later that students discover they were swindled. And then what - sue the teachers?       Until rather recently, there was a body of information, regarding history, science, language and literature which all educated persons held in common. This greatly facilitated conversation and understanding among the better educated, and, indeed, identified which members of the population were "educated."       Along came the egalitarians to tell everyone that it was terribly elitist, even racist, to have any common knowledge, especially if it is based on dead white males. Although this "knowledge" is in books and is available to everyone, not everyone will take the trouble to acquire it. These lazy folk - you know who they are - want every one to be as flat out stupid as they are. This is in perfect keeping with Liberal principles which, put basically, say that if All cannot have something, then None should have that something. Put another way, if All cannot be Equally happy, then All shall be Equally miserable! The main feature is that everyone be Equal.       Are you willing to play this no-win game? On this page I am assembling short essays on historical events - representatives of those things which educated persons used to hold in common. Take 'em - they are free.

More to come . . .