The laws aided and legitimized the political power of the aristocracy and allowed them to consolidate their...
Month: April 2019
An embarrassing end to a career and ironic end to a life. By Gina K. Logue Roy...
Just what was it that the crew of the HMS Daedalus saw? By Matthew Willis On 6...
The name Byzantine Empire is a modern term and would have been alien to its contemporaries, who...
The Roman Empire splintered into three separate political entities: the Gallic Empire, the Roman Empire, and the...
In the shadow of the pyramids of Giza lie the tombs of the courtiers and officials who...
Recycling on a large scale is a Bronze Age invention. The circular economy is typically seen as the progressive...
We can either take advantage of advances in technology to enhance human beings (never to go back),...
With its novel vignettes and its use of a camera obscura in the production of the plates,...
A charming watercolor provides insight into the French artist’s private world. A tiny treasure by Édouard Manet...
Saint Trophime, Arles, 12th – 15th century (photo: Elliot Brown, CC BY 2.0) By Christine M. Bolli / 08.08.2015 PhD...
Church of Sainte‐Foy, Conques, France, c. 1050–1130 (photo: jean françois bonachera, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Dr. Elisa Foster...
This followed a long period of tension and violence, marked by the first Jewish uprising which ended...
The outcome was the formation of the Hasmonean Dynasty, an autonomous Jewish rule over Palestine that would...
The humiliating failure of the vaunted Maginot Line thrilled the vast majority of Germans, who adored their...
The years 1816 to 1819 saw the last wave of immigration into the United States that basically...
The history of discrimination by the United States Department of Agriculture and the class action lawsuits by...
Examining evidence that enslaved persons were involved in the construction of the original Smithsonian Building in Washington,...
Iconic children’s books and popular media that Gen Xers grew up with are riddled with damaging Native...
The 1830 Indian Removal Act led to the displacement of the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Cherokee...
The U.S. Senate was designed to be a more deliberative body than the U.S. House. Introduction The...
The Constitution places few limits on who can serve in the House, but it requires that Members...
Two-thirds of Americans — and nearly all Democratic presidential candidates — now agree that pot prohibition is...
Most medical historians agree that one of the most important advances in medicine was the use of...
During the devil’s last apogee in early modern Europe, demonic afflictions were taken seriously by both priests...
While contemporary laser removal techniques are only around forty years old, efforts to erase or rewrite tattoos...
The tools, called “bone combs,” resemble hair combs with their grooved edges. By Amy Held Tattooing goes...
It has meant different things to different people at different times, which is part of its genius....
French artisans and craftsmen began constructing the Statue in France under Auguste Bartholdi’s direction. The Early Stages...
New research demonstrates that a sculpture is associated with a harrowing episode of anti-Semitic violence in late-1400s...