By Steve Price Eighty years ago, the brave men of the Allied Expeditionary Force landed on the beaches of northern France in what was to be the greatest amphibious landing in military history. It was called Operation Overlord, and it would prove key to loosing the bonds of Europe from the grip of the Nazis
There was a time in the history of the world when two global superpowers stood face-to-face in the most important game of chicken humanity has ever known. The period of the Cold War between the United States of America and the Soviet Union was one of the most tense in human history, and bled over
By Bryan Ergle Shaving… a task that young men often look forward to as a rite of passage, and then men and women both, for the most part, basically endure for the rest of their lives, the unavoidable consequence of having not been shipwrecked on a deserted island. But the way we shave today, the
By Steve Price Once upon a time, the newly crowned King of France, Louis XVI and his wife Marie rode through the streets of Paris, basking in the promise of the new monarch’s reign-to-be. Among the head of a company of well-wishers to greet the new king and queen was a young lawyer of some
Welcome to the Cultivar of Knowledge, a brand-new article series debuting here at Well-Sewn this month. For years, members of the staff have enjoyed deep and meaningful conversations on a variety of topics ranging from stories from the ancient civilizations right up to the modern period. As passionate scholars for the field, it is our
By Bryan Ergle Nuance, in the modern era, seems to have become an evil buzzword, something that may get you banned from a popular club or shunned at a weekend get together. It is verboten in political and business speech, and increasingly often, in day-to-day chit chat. But it should not be so – because
