"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Roman Senator, ca. 50 B.C. (?)

Hawaii and America

• Liliuokalani, Last Queen of Hawaii: A call for freedom from the last Queen of Hawaii, 1898
• Hawaiian Society Before Europeans: An accomplished native society
• Hawaiian Politics Before America: Politics before the American Republic
• The Coming of the Americans: America arrives in paradise
• Hawaiian Cry for Freedom: A Hawaiian queen pleads for her nation
• Annexation: Foreigners sell out Hawaii
• The "Treaty of Annexation": The humiliating document that spelled the end for Hawaiians
• Hawaiian Society Today: Modern Hawaii
• Liliuokalani's Warning: Liliuokalani warned believers in Democracy about "ambitious men"

• Native People and the French: Life before the British Empire
• The Founding of T.O.: The British, Lord Simcoe and the founding of modern Toronto
• What's in a Name?: How Toronto got its name
• Early Toronto: Anna Brownell Jameson wrote about life in Early Canada. She was pretty darned bright. Here are a few brief selections of what she wrote about Toronto
• The Toronto Islands: One of T.O.'s greatest places. They've been a source of relaxation and happiness from the beginning

The Classical Mediterranean

The Roman Republic

• CORNELIVS TACITVS and ROMA: A great author and historian who wrote by about A.D. 100, when the Republic was nothing more than a distant memory and the Roman Empire was settling over Europe like a black plague.
• The Republican Social Order: Social classes and conflict in the Roman Republic.
• The Roman Republic: Law, "Democracy" and Freedom-- The Roman Republic.
• The Magistrates of Rome: Leaders in the Republic.
• The Roman Senate: The Elite and the nobility.
• Civil War: The death of the Republic in the carnage of social strife and civil wars.
• IMPERIVM: The "New Order": Freedom and liberty banished.
• Roman Politics and the Modern World: Issues today bear a close resemblance to Republican problems.

• General Introduction: Native civilizations in North America
• Basic Ontario Geography: A very basic guide to Ontario geography
• Native Civilizations in Eastern North America: Ancient civilizations in the Mid and Eastern U.S. and Canada
• Teotihuacan: Ancient City of Central Mexico
• Cahokia: Ancient City of the American Mid-West
• Europeans and North America: The Europeans arrive in North America
• Invasion and collapse: The Spanish invasion of Eastern North America and the collapse of civilizations
• Native Nations: Ontario: Native Peoples in Southern Ontario
• Attitudes Towards Native History: Why are the histories of native civilizations so poorly known? Perhaps some of the reasons are here
• North American Native History Today: Native history and native people in North America today