Statue of Alexander Hamilton by James Earle Fraser in front of the United States Treasury Building in Washington, DC / Photo by Karen Nutini, Wikimedia Commons Over the objections of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Hamilton also oversaw the chartering in 1791 of the First Bank of the United States. By Dr. Lawrence H. White[…]
Illustration of a workroom where several men use machines and tools to craft prosthetics / National Library of Medicine, Public Domain The transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy took more than a century in the United States, but that long development entered its first phase from the 1790s through the 1830s. Edited by[…]
The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople, by Eugene Delacroix, 1840 / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons The Great Schism, also called the East-West Schism, divided Christendom into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 09.20.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Introduction The Great Schism, also called the East-West Schism, divided Christendom into[…]
Desecrated Christian icons in Turkey / Photo by Georges Jansoone JoJan, Göreme Valley Open Air Museum, Cappadocia, Wikimedia Commons Iconoclasm is the deliberate destruction of religious icons or monuments, usually for religious or political motives. In common parlance, an iconoclast is a person who challenges cherished beliefs or traditional institutions as being based on error[…]
Brysa Hill ruins / Creative Commons Genocide is often viewed as a particular feature of our own current age. Nothing could be further from the truth. By Gerard Mulligan / 01.27.2013 Introduction Genocide is often viewed as a particular feature of our own current age. This perception largely stems from the terrible events which took[…]
Skeletal remains of a group of foragers massacred around 10,000 years ago on the shores of a lagoon is unique evidence of a violent encounter between clashing groups of ancient hunter-gatherers, and suggests the “presence of warfare” in late Stone Age foraging societies. The fossilised bones of a group of prehistoric hunter-gatherers who were massacred[…]