This week: the Muromachi bakufu comes crashing down, thanks to a combination of structural weaknesses and a shogun who is…
The law was out to take Emma Goldman down on a range of charges from distributing obscene material to assassination…
This week: Go-Daigo’s regime collapses, and a second samurai government, the Muromachi bakufu, emerges. How did Ashikaga Takauji successfully establish…
This week: the dramatic career of Emperor Go-Daigo, who brought down the Kamakura shogunate and ended Hojo rule in Japan.…
Something seemed a little less than ideal about governments and economies around the world in the late 1880s. One woman’s solution? Anarchy.
This week, we’re taking a look at some of the economic and social structures of Kamakura period Japan in order…
This week: why did the Mongols invade Japan? How did a seemingly invincible military machine falter in its assaults on…
This week: the advent of the medieval era brings with it new strands of Buddhism that will radically remake the…
On one side, a crooked saloon owner with a side business in brothels and opium dens. On the other side, a moralistic tycoon with rail car full of beautiful vegetables. Which one of them did more damage to a frontier town in Montana?
This week: the rise of the Minamoto clan, the destruction of the Taira clan, and the birth of a new…