On October 29, 1969, an experiment at UCLA sparked a communication revolution, the implications of which are...
Month: March 2019
The record is unique in European history and, packed full of statistics and snippets which reveal details...
Heraldry began on the mid-12th century CE battlefield as an easy means to identify medieval royalty and...
Bahrain has a unique, indigenous middle class, which contributes to the tendency of that nation being more...
The great commercial and trading connections between Mesopotamia and Dilmun were strong and profound. Introduction Dilmun, or Telmun,[2]...
With the rise of Zionism in the 19th century, land was purchased for settlement – they they...
Messianic Jews consider themselves Jewish Christians. When Loren Jacobs, member of the Shma Yisrael Congregation, offered a...
The Sykes-Picot Agreement created the modern Middle East. It represents one of the first installments in a...
Israel’s dominance of the Democratic Party is eroding and increasingly losing legitimacy in the eyes of the...
Hasidism was called into existence by the charismatic figure Israel ben Eliezer (ca. 1700–1760), who was active...
These networks formed as a result of the dispersal of Jewish society over great distances starting in...
The Wadi Suq culture defines human settlement in the United Arab Emirates and Oman in the period...
Umm an-Nār in the area of modern-day United Arab Emirates and Northern Oman. Introduction Umm al-Nar (Arabic: أُمّ الـنَّـار, translit....
Communism has been one of the most influential economic theories of all times; recognizing its influence is...
Medvedev’s critical portrayal of the Soviet Union was powerful, persuasive and principled. Zhores Medvedev was not crazy....
Kyiv was abandoned by the Nazis in November 1943, allowing the Soviet authorities to return to the...
In 1943, a propagandistic ideal meant creating a modern Ukraine through Soviet industrialization, even as the republic...
Early Vikings wouldn’t understand nationalism – the secret to their success was to embrace other cultures. The...
Many white supremacists who have turned to an ancient heathen religion known most commonly as Odinism. By...
Even in a male-dominated society, Viking women were far from powerless. By Emma GroeneveldHistorian Introduction Although women in the Viking Age...
Viking Age Scandinavians almost exclusively made applied art – aesthetically appealing and useful. By Emma GroeneveldHistorian Introduction...
Woodrow Wilson may have been one of our hardest-working chief executives and by the fall of 1919,...
Politics can sometimes turn the best of friends into the worst of enemies. Such was the fate...
In 1980, 60 percent of 12th graders said they read a book, newspaper or magazine every day...
An unlikely combination of artists, medieval historians, philosophers and scientists have converged to create an exhibition of...
A new study posits the woman was licking brushes covered with pigments of lapis lazuli, a rare...
The measles outbreak traced back to Disneyland has spread to eight states, with as many as 95...
Hernán Cortés owed his conquest of the Aztecs to his expedition’s unknown, unseen secret weapon: the smallpox...
One modern Mexican artist is making souvenirs that shed light on the ancient peoples of this city...
Miss Betty Cooper may not be “well known” to modern historians, but the ad claims that she...