Because of its geography and location, Cilicia was among the most important regions of the classical world....
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Galatia was situated in eastern Phrygia, a region now within modern-day Turkey. By Jeffrey KingHistorian Introduction Galatia...
U.S. space exploration inspired a generation of students and innovators, but NASA’s role has diminished, and the...
The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to...
While the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing is an opportunity to celebrate a remarkable technological...
Two hundred years after New England’s first great hurricane, we ask very different questions about the nature...
While we’re losing biological diversity, we’re also losing linguistic and cultural diversity at the same time. This...
Touring with urban geology in mind. By David B. Williams In this age of concrete and glass,...
About 19,000 years ago in southwestern France at a site called Saint-Germain-La-Rivière, an adult woman dies and...
Poet-politician Joel Barlow personified an ideology borne of religious antipathy and economic rivalry. No sooner had the...
What it was like at the main gateway to the U.S. in the early 20th century. Immigrants...
Discussing the role of animals in transport, logistics, cavalry and communications in the First World War. Introduction...
Examining the U.S. 82nd Infantry Division and the bloodiest battle in American history. Originally published by Learn...
Geographical importance and religious differences were both factors in the war. Introduction Overview In Britain, the Crimean...
Carrhae proved to be a complete disaster from its beginning. Introduction The Battle of Carrhae in 53 BCE was...
With major dailies giving a megaphone to the police, the coverage of Stonewall is a reminder of...
Sex between people of the same gender has existed for millennia. But anthropologists in sub-Saharan Africa often...
We should take a hard look at how each of us may be undermining community health in...
Contrasting nineteenth-century ideas (including Livingstone’s own) about fever with modern ideas about the causes and appropriate treatment...
A detailed description of Livingstone’s medical education and an overview of how his education affected his recording...
So-called heresies offered the opportunity for religious expression outside of the narrowly defined and self-serving precepts of...
The Donation of Constantine was most likely written, and almost certainly used, to coerce Pepin the Short...
In the fields of south Texas Mexican women work long hours in dangerous conditions under the ever-present...
What social conditions contributed to the revolution? How did the United States seek to influence events in...
To understand the struggle for Mexican independence, it’s necessary to explore both the wider, international context and...
The relationship between power—or politics—and culture in French history is an ambivalent one, defined as much by...
Municipal swimming pools flourished in the 20th century. But too often, their success was based on the...
Arguments made by eighteenth-century writers about the slave trade and contributions to those debates by freed slave...
Exploring how novel Oroonoko compares to other representations of race, slavery, and colonialism in the seventeenth and...
Inscriptions ranging from the first Persian king, Cyrus, through Artaxerxes reveal elements in common in both Babylonian...