In the nineteenth century, domesticity and maternity became the primary cultural expectation for French women. In the...
Month: January 2019
An overview of the political, religious, and cultural response to the restoration of the Roman Catholic hierarchy...
Roman honor and shame became Christian virtue and shame. The Christian reinterpretation of the classical Roman dichotomy...
Calling the French liars, atheists, and libertines, undoubtedly evoked a general sense of immorality and disrepute. In...
The future of Yazidism is unclear, but it will certainly never be the same again. Abstract The...
There is no culture recorded in human history which has not practiced some form of religion. Introduction...
America had completed a series of successful launches into space and achieved many firsts well before Sputnik....
A discussion of the the scientific context prior to the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917....
The effectiveness of the propaganda machinery altered perception, thus reality. Abstract In his epic Mein Kampf, Adolf...
Historical research is important not simply for its own sake, but for what we can learn from...
The belief that nobody really does or can know anything is the perfect soil for an authoritarian...
This is a story of four different skulls that reached three of the world’s largest museums under...
For anything to exist, it must serve as a missing connection to reality. By Dr. Bassey Samuel...
Though the fall of the Berlin Wall did not bring along the utopia many had hoped for,...
Throughout the time of massive change from 1961 to 1981, there was one constant—the Cold War. Introduction...
Beauty makes me happy and evidence shows that’s true for many, if not, most of us. George...
Threats of global catastrophe won’t move people to action. Only the heart can inspire zeal. By Charles...
How did this forest persist untouched through time? By Dr. Bernhard E. Splechtna (left) and Karl Splechtna...
Geographical consultations with shamans showed the relationship between imperialism, exploration, and indigenous environmental knowledge. By and large,...
When the 17th president was accused of high crimes and misdemeanors in 1868, the wild trial nearly...
The views of the Vice President rarely matter too much, unless something happens to the President. In...
The European Union enters 2019 with a mass of unresolved problems, in addition to being torn apart...
After the crisis of the EDC, European integration focused on the economic field as the best way...
These were mythologized as a bastion of Judaism – of the so-called “yidishkeyt” – in the context...
There were complaints that the lack of using a permanent family name caused a lot of “disorder” Introduction...
From the mid-18th century, Africans and people of African descent – many of them former slaves –...
Team member Felix Knight looks through archives at the Church of Espiritu Santo in Havana, Cuba. David LaFevor...
Chinese and foreign merchants developed a great deal of respect for each other. Not just anyone could...
The Yuanmingyuan was a paradise on earth for the Qing emperors. Introduction The Garden of Perfect Brightness—Yuanmingyuan...
A vivid picture of the emergence of the global market and the beginnings of global competition. Introduction...