The siege of Masada, chronicled by Flavius Josephus, was one of the final events in the First...
Month: February 2019
Herodion, the palace fortress and highest peak in the Judaean Desert, is the only site that is...
The lobbying tactics developed by the U.S. tobacco industry no longer just targeted government, but expanded to...
In a single stroke, Davis and his legacy were all but buried. What was it like to...
Washington arriving in Boston on July 2, 1775, to take command of the Continental Army. / Courtesy...
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.” “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” These words could have been reasonably spoken...
Dealing in false coinage was said to undermine the king’s prerogative to issue currency, illegally reproduce his...
The origin of the idea that liberty could be preserved through the separation of powers endures through...
Greek city-states developed different forms of governance with very different political structures and strengths. The Emergence of...
How do the Russian people feel about life in general? About President Putin and their politicians? About...
One of the largest analyses to date on how fake news spread on Twitter both during and...
There are lessons to be learned from this story. In October 1924, during the general election campaign...
The British poster artist Cyril Kenneth Bird, known as Fougasse, once referred to posters as “anything stuck...
America was seen as the promised land by the oppressed and exploited masses. By Åse Elin LangelandHistorian...
Germany can look back on a long history of migration. By Dr. Vera Hanewinkel and Dr. Jochen...
A lot of what is known about pirates is not true, and a lot of what is...
Almost everything we know about Dr. Lionel Wafer comes from his own pen. He enters the historical...
There’s a hidden history of Black activists who were also college-football players. By Dave Zirin In 1966,...
The integration of collegiate and professional sports parallels the civil rights movement, but in important ways it...
How James Harris changed the NFL’s marquee role. An hour or two before kickoff on the night...
As a player and a coach, Walter Camp rewrote rugby’s rules to create a sport fit for...
Social media activity, political knowledge, ideological intensity, and an interest in politics are significantly associated with political-consumer...
Examining the dietary and physiological requirements of a modern athlete and contrasting this with those of ancient...
Punishment for cheating and bribery in the Olympics of Ancient Greece could include fines, public flogging and...
Bull-leaping fresco from the east wing of the palace of Knossos (reconstructed), c. 1400 B.C.E., fresco, 78...
Bull’s head rhyton from the palace at Knossos, c. 1550-1500 B.C.E., black steatite, jasper, and mother-of-pearl, 26...
Without distractions, he produced some of his best writing there in exile. By Ted Lawrence, J.D. Some writers are...
Jame’s Laughlin’s life amalgamated many seemingly dissonant strains in twentieth-century America into a coherent whole. The American...
Times had taken a sharp turn for the worse. Lexington and Concord had changed everything. When the...
Americans were fed up. The “Intolerable Acts” were more than the colonies could stand. In the summer...