Impeachment carried with it grave risks for the Republicans. Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United...
Month: September 2019
Johnson was the seventeenth President of the United States, succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of...
Ukraine’s Orthodox Church recently broke off from Russia. This dispute has a history that goes back to...
Byzantine influence was pronounced in Ukraine’s religious, political, and cultural spheres. Byzantium was originally a Greek colony,...
The Eastern Empire flourished while the Western Empire struggled and finally dissolved. Introduction The Western Roman Empire is...
Alaric and his army marched through the Salarian Gates and pillaged the city. Introduction In August of...
Sephardic, German, and Eastern European immigrants each contributed to the formation of American Jewry. By Dr. Joellyn...
“Rosh HaShanah” means ‘head [of] the year’, referring to the Jewish day of new year. Introduction Rosh...
An expert explains the Sikh faith and its history in the United States. Introduction New Jersey’s first...
Peace but also conflicts that occurred between the Sikh Gurus and the Mughal rulers who were contemporaneous...
Christianity did not immediately win the hearts and minds of the people of Europe. Introduction Religion in...
Saint Gregory the Illuminator or Enlightener established Christianity as the official religion of ancient Armenia. By Mark...
A fundamental decision that led to the successful lunar landings came largely as a result of one...
A virtual tour through our little space in the universe. Originally published by ESRI, republished with embed...
A disheveled poet crafted verse of exquisite order. Thanks to the popular 1994 movie Four Weddings and a Funeral, thousands...
Ellen N. La Motte’s ‘The Backwash of War’ was praised for its clear-eyed portrayal of war, but...
The plot reflected the growing discontent among the ruling class of the Roman state with Nero’s increasingly...
Roman law provisions on desertion had features that were totally different from the common Roman criminal law....
The GOP hopes the S-word will scare you, but great public works projects transformed this country for...
The earliest reference to universal healthcare came in 1912 with Teddy Roosevelt. By Donne Levy Another presidential...
The first known woman to join a firefighting brigade may not have done so by choice. Introduction...
Fighting fires in early America was about community, property, and rivalry. By Jackson Landers In a scene...
Minority opinions posted online can skew social consensus. A high school student from Ohio made national headlines...
When the existence of unicorns, and the curative powers of the horns ascribed to them, began to...
This curious machine was meant to answer the problem of the moment: how to provide sufficient training...
His brother, Marcus (the famed orator), was running for consul, the loftiest office in the Roman Republic....
A new book argues that violent rhetoric and disregard for political norms was the beginning of Rome’s...
Much of modern American political strategy, whether Democratic or Republican, depends on a disinterested public. Thomas Paine’s Common...
Rail travel induces a reverie and intimacy among its diverse passengers. Amos, a one-legged Amish man, was...
Thoreau’s attitude toward the railroad was foremost one of ambivalence. What’s The Railroad To Me? What’s the...