North American History. The eastern frontier. Ground for expansion to the Louisiana Territory

This is my final segment of a photo-rich Book 1 survey of North American colonial history, until the be beginning of the 19th century...

Interview with Dan Boone, Deceased This colonial account features the life of Daniel Boone, frontiersman and pioneer. Photography...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPu3v4cCbu4 This narrative focuses on the pre-revolutionary war period in American History that saw...

America's early colonization brought drastically different initial opinions and interactions between the settlers and the native...

https://youtu.be/FEsQD4Q1_6M (Video, 10 minutes) tap arrow photo (Part 1, Introduction) The beginning of an exploration of the...

https://youtu.be/eN8jc-5Wy8I Menno’s Folks. The Mennonites are a pie of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after a Frisian priest —...

He was charming one moment, but coming out of a passing shadow Jeb can be dark and intense, aloof and judgmental in a single glance. His...

(Hue, Vietnam, part 2) Emperors and gods are sometimes (usually!) indistinguishable. In Asia, and especially looming China, central...

It's early morning, late September. I stride across Meidan-e Shah Square (the massive Royal Square) in old town Esfahan (or Isfahan),...

In the wilderness about 200 miles south of Tehran is a place called “Half of the World.” Ishfahan, twice the capital of Persia, was the...

Tomb of Cyrus the Great (all photos are my own) “O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus...

One of the oldest towns in the world displays some of the finest Persian architecture in central Asia

Modern Iran is certainly a paragon of Islam but the country’s culture also has deep roots in the ancient mostly unrecorded Zoroastrian...

Do human beings (living things) have real “free will”? The philosophical debate over this question probably will continue eternally even...

While Tehran has much human drama to keep a first-time or umpteenth-time visitor entertained, the heart of Iran still beats in the...

Whose head is that? The Lion and Sun (شیر و خورشید‎‎, Shir o Khorshid) emblem (holding a shamshir, scimitar) remained the official...

Iran/Persia is the torn heart of Central Asia (Asia Minor). Secular China is the body, Byzantine Russia the head, the Hindu Indian...

Cosmopolitan Smog - view from Tochal Ski Mountain Tehran, the largest city and capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, fans out below...

This account of Iran's people, land, arts, and history begins simply with a collection of faces -- of citizens going about their daily...