Creative Commons “Some ethical vision of the world, an ethical concept of what human life and human beings are…To be aware of the ethics in one’s own work, to own it, is political.” By Nayereh Doosti / 04.30.2017 Aleksandar Hemon is the author of the novel The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National[…]
British Library, Public Domain Exploring nations’ reliance on propaganda in World War One, with a focus on symbols and slogans of nationhood and patriotism. By Dr. David Welch / 01.29.2014 Emeritus Professor of History University of Kent Introduction The First World War was the first war in which the mass media played a significant part in[…]
The Great Silk Road was a caravan road connecting East Asia to the Mediterranean from Ancient times into the Middle Ages. It was used for exporting silk from China, hence its’ name. The term was introduced by the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877. / Wikimedia Commons Silk played a significant role in the[…]
Examining interactions and the exchanges in the Eurasian networks during the first centuries of the Roman Empire. By Dr. Marco Galli / 12.16.2016 Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology Sapienza University of Rome Abstract This research focuses on four relevant points. From a historiographical perspective, the reconstruction of the trading routes represented a central theme in the[…]
Creative Commons One of the most fundamental characteristics of civilization is the rule of law, especially equal law. By Thomas Fortuna / 09.12.2011 494 BCE: Campaign at the Sacred Mount The Secession of the People to the Mons Sacer, engraving by B. Barloccini, 1849 / Wikimedia Commons The plebeians made up the majority of the[…]
The Plebeian struggle to gain equal standing with the aristocratic Patrician ruling class. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 10.24.2018 Public Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Introduction The Conflict of the Orders, also referred to as the Struggle of the Orders, was a political struggle between the Plebeians (commoners) and Patricians (aristocrats) of the ancient Roman Republic lasting from 500 BC to 287 BC, in which[…]