It’s 1812, and Britain and France are in a spat. More specifically, power hungry Napoleon has schemes to take down Britain. However he lacks the naval power to invade, so he decided to hit them where it hurt, their economy. France banned US ships from European ports if they had traded with Britain or carried…

It’s December 20th, 1860, and South Carolina has voted to secede. The wise major of the U.S. Army, caught with a small group of troops in seceding South Carolina, makes the judicious move to Fort Sumter. This was wise for two reasons: 1. It was a key location that they saw as a way to…

The winds change direction. A gale rises and falls. The bottom of the boat rises not because of its own will.

What are you willing to give up? What does that tell you you about the thing you’re sacrifice for? What does that tell you about your sacrifice?

Imagine you’re part of a growing nation in the early 1800s. Different parts of the country have fundamentally different laws about slavery, and as new territories open up west, a critical question emerges: what’s the standard going forward? In 1820, the nation aligns on a compromise. The Missouri Compromise draws a literal line across the…