By the late nineteenth century, no official copy could be found of the document that introduced Haiti...
Month: January 2019
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...
In a time of great national crisis, a president took the bold step of declaring freedom for...
A bill of lading is a document issued by a carrier to a shipper acknowledging receipt of...
In 1896, a woman university student living in Zurich published in pamphlet form an extraordinary tirade against...
As important as sexuality is to being human, it is often viewed as a taboo topic for...
This tactic could set a political foe aside from the whole community and turn the audience against...
Epaminondas transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a preeminent...
Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, she beat the odds. By Carole MerrittFormer...
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, from A Blighted Life, 1880 / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons The life of Rosina...
The region of Palestine is among the earliest sites of human habitation in the world. Introduction Palestine...
Examining the period during which the empire of the “Amorites” over their environment, their culture and their...
Every third European is a speaker of a Slavic language. By area, nearly half of Europe speaks...
By one interpretation of the historiography criterion, Southeastern Europe enters protohistory only with Homer. At any rate,...
A new scene was taking root, composed of bands that combined punk’s politics and attitude with the...
Besides its striking visual characteristics, we might also consider steampunk a novel and popular way of “doing”...
The term ‘Völkerschau’ became common in 19th-century Europe and denoted the exhibition of members of particular ethnic...
A history of the expansion of Europe overseas and the multiple forms of encounters between Europeans and...
The concept of absolutism – the divine right to rule – dominated the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
The era of absolutism, exemplified by the “Sun King” Louis XIV Bourbon of France, marks the rise...
In the 19th century, the Grange was an agricultural brotherhood that sought to foster mutual self-reliance and...
A system inherited from colonial Spain kept Americans in servitude even after the Civil War. Imagine a...
By 2100, more than 50 per cent of the land now used to grow coffee will no...
There are over 100 species of wild coffee, but only a few supply the world’s morning caffeine...
A brief account of the cultivation of the coffee plant in the Old World and its introduction...
The earliest substantiated evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree is from the...
The Maya Civilisation can be traced as far back as 2000 BCE. Introduction Geology is not just...