Christine Caccipuoti

Every person who grows up to become a historian, arrives in the field in a unique way. However, no matter when they get there or how,...

The fight for the arts to be taken seriously and valued by wider audiences to the same level as they are by those who create art has been...

In the 1920s, a memoir written over a hundred years earlier by Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, was published. Hortense’s life...

Every year when December 2nd rolls around I smile, because in the 19th century it was a very significant date for my favorite imperial...

I considered calling this post “Everything I Need to Know about History I Learned from Musical Theatre” but that would be such a gross...

[Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769. This post is my way of marking it, so Happy Birthday, Napoleon!] When Napoleon Bonaparte...

"Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere,...