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The Zanj Rebellion: The African Slave Revolt That Rocked Medieval Mesopotamia
WWII’s Freeman Field Mutiny: The Black Officers Who Took a Stand Against Segregation
Fighting Women: Lakshmibai, Indian Warrior Princess
Charles Vane: The Fierce and Unstable Pirate Who Scared Other Pirates
La Nueve: The Anarchists Who Spearheaded the Liberation of Paris in WWII
“Tell Them I Said Something!” – Pancho Villa’s Last Words
Girolamo Savonarola and the Bonfire of the Vanities: A Maoist Cultural Revolution in 1400s Florence
Bela Lugosi, ‘Hollywood’s Prince of Darkness’, Fought Real Life Monsters as an Antifascist Labor Activist
The Flying Gang and Republic of Pirates: When Pirates Took Over the Bahamas
Wealthy Heiress Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army: From Kidnapped Rich Girl to Radical Revolutionary
Willikin of the Weald: A Real Life Robin Hood Who Fought for the Baddie King John Instead of Against Him
The Monaghan Lunatic Asylum Soviet: The Irish Asylum that Raised a Red Flag and Declared a Soviet
‘The Poorest He Hath a Life to Live as the Greatest He’: Thomas Rainsborough, the English Civil War Radical Centuries Ahead of His Time
Jose de San Martin, the Liberator of Argentina, Chile, and Peru
The Cangaco and Cangaceiros: The Bandits of the Brazilian Outback
Algernon Sidney: The Anti-Royalist Aristocrat Who Wrote the ‘Textbook of the American Revolution’
Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin: The Teenager Who Defied Segregation
The Nika Riots: History’s Deadliest Sports Hooliganism Was Put Down by Massacring 30,000 Rioting Fans in a Stadium
The Harrying of the North: The Brutal Norman Pacification of Northern England Likened to Genocide
Semaine Sanglante, or Bloody Week: The Brutal Suppression of the Paris Commune
Stephanie St. Clair: The Harlem Gambling Queen Who Took On the Mafia and NYPD
The Bitch Wars: The Soviet Gulag Gang War that Killed Tens of Thousands
The Sicilian Vespers: How an Indecent Proposal Got Thousands of French Massacred in Sicily
The Forest Brothers: The Baltic States’ Anti-Soviet Guerrilla War
The 1914 Christmas Truce: An Interlude of Humanity That Interrupted War’s Horrors
Barbara Rose Johns: The Teenager Who Set in Motion the End of Segregation
Edward Allen Carter Jr.: A Real Life Action Hero Who Fought Franco, Hirohito, and Hitler
Jack Johnson: The Unapologetically Black Heavyweight Champion Who Challenged Jim Crow Conventions
Toussaint Louverture: Leader of History’s Most Successful Slave Revolt
August Landmesser: A Man Who Refused to Follow the Crowd and Go Along With Evil
Rock & Roll’s First ‘Wild Man’ Jerry Lee Lewis Wrecked His Career by Marrying His Thirteen-Year-Old Cousin
Meowing Nuns: The Weird Mass Hysteria that Swept a Medieval Convent
The Men Who Made Ancient Athens: Peisistratos and Cleisthenes, the Tyrant and the Democract
Johnny Ringo, the Tragic Old West Outlaw
Town vs Gown: The St Scholastica Day Riot, When Locals Lit Into Oxford University Scholars
Volante Rossa: The Italian Anti-Fascists Who Went on a Revenge Spree After WWII
The English Peasants’ Revolt: The Medieval Uprising That Transformed England
Henry Kaiser and Liberty Ships: The Massive Project that Kept the Allies Supplied in WWII
Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Fearsome Abolitionist Muhammad Ali Was Named After
The Bay of Pigs: Mistakes That Transformed an Invasion Into a Fiasco
Colonel Blood: The Audacious Rogue Who Stole the Crown Jewels of England
Piet Hein: The Dutchman Who Captured the Spanish Treasure Fleet
Fighting Women: Vitka Kempner, the Inspirational WWII Jewish Partisan Leader
The Forty Elephants: The All-Female Gang That Preyed on London’s Elites for Generations
Ancient China’s Red Eyebrows Peasant Rebellion Overthrew an Emperor and Ended a Dynasty
Andrew Higgins and the Higgins Boat That Revolutionized Warfare and Won WWII
The Helot Revolt: The State Slave Uprising That Rocked Ancient Sparta
The Great Cheese Riot: Fighting Soldiers With Wheels of Cheese
Belva Ann Lockwood: The First Female Attorney to Practice Before the US Supreme Court
The Hussite Revolution: An Uprising That Revolutionized Warfare
Folklore and Mythology: The Origins of the Robin Hood Legend
Josephus: The Great Jewish Revolt Leader Who Switched Sides and Joined the Romans
Henry Morgan, the Real Life Captain Morgan, Was One of History’s Most Successful Pirates
Cacareco: The Rhinoceros That Won an Election
Fighting Women: Eta Wrobel Led an Anti-Nazi Partisan Unit in WWII
Lee Marvin Excelled in Tough Guy Roles Because He Had Been a Real Life Tough Guy WWII US Marine
The Khawarij: Al Qaeda’s Medieval Terrorist Ancestors
The Crimean War’s Other Nurse: Mary Seacole
‘Big Pier’ Gerolfs Donia: The Sixteenth Century Seven-Foot Avenger
Urwa ibn al Ward: Ancient Arabian Robin Hood Bandit-Poet, and Prince of Vagabonds
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