May 8, 2017

He is admired and studied throughout the world today, but such wasn’t the case 150 years ago. The 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln set the nation on a course for war. Slavery was the economic engine of the South, and the President viewed it as nothing less than a “monstrous injustice.” Lincoln was not a […]

Few monarchs ever willingly step down. Either an enemy topples their power or death takes their life. No one who inherits a throne throws it away, except in the case of the British monarch, King Edward VIII. He ascended the throne in 1936 only to abdicate later the same year to pursue one of his