In 1811 a former slave named Henry Christophe anointed himself ‘First Monarch’ of the ‘New World.’ For...
Day: January 27, 2019
By the late nineteenth century, no official copy could be found of the document that introduced Haiti...
Sex worker card collection, Thomas SG Farnetti / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons In the 1980s a change...
In Victorian times, syphilis was believed to arise spontaneously in a prostitute’s body, a result of ‘immorality’....
The historic University of Paris first appeared in the second half of the twelfth century. Introduction The...
Monasteries were important centers of learning which educated the young and produced new technologies for agricultural and...