Rothschild family descended from a man who established a banking business in the 1760s, so they have been a name associated with international banking since the beginning (Corti, 2001). Their ancestor was Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who was a court Jew Continue Reading...
Revolutionary Character
Alexander Hamilton was the prototypical opportunist of the American Revolution: of obscure and humble origins, he longed for an escape from his lowly rank as accountant and, as Wood (2006) notes, it was "war" that Hamilton be Continue Reading...
A favorite target for conspiracists today as well as in the past, a group of European intellectuals created the Order of the Illuminati in May 1776, in Bavaria, Germany, under the leadership of Adam Weishaupt (Atkins, 2002). In this regard, Stewart Continue Reading...