When it’s tough earning to put bread on the table, the best thing to do is look...
Month: September 2019
The Marquis de Lafayette’s name graces more city parks and streets than perhaps any other foreigner. If...
Why a 19-year-old Frenchman traded Versailles for Valley Forge. The 19-year-old Marquis de Lafayette had met only...
There is little evidence remaining from the pre-Roman worship, as they left little footprints of their spiritual...
One of history’s most influential civilizations took shape, leaving behind a cultural legacy that survives in part...
The war over-extended the capabilities of the Soviet empire, as other military engagements have helped to bring...
On August 23rd, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union stunned the world by announcing a nonaggression...
Looking at the human exchanges that took place between the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church in...
From onion domes to tsarist-era Russian dialects, evidence of the Russian colonialism remains. Every summer a conga...
These burial places formed the centers of small-scale chiefdoms and shared a set of sculptural motifs and...
Deep in the Colorado Plateau, there are paintings from an ancient people. Of the thousands of Native...
How proliferation of surveillance and censorship technology has helped bolster authoritarian regimes. Months ago, despite clear evidence to the...
A scribe would be remembered, not only by family and friends, but by a much larger audience...
Harper’s songs were lyrics composed in ancient Egypt to be sung at funeral feasts and inscribed on...
Herndon would have sympathized with the contemporary journalist who dryly remarked that John Wilkes Booth’s fatal bullet...
Many were conflicted between their desire to believe and their want of rigorous intellectual explanation, and material...
The Pratiharas were known chiefly for their patronage of art, sculpture, and temple-building. By Dr. Avantika LalHistorian,...
We’re still playing the same game, 2500 years later. There were apparently many anti-superstitious atheists in ancient...