Before establishing mainland colonies, Spain first settled the larger Caribbean islands. Among the areas Columbus discovered during...
Month: October 2019
The Golden Horde extended from the Caucasus to Hungary to Constantinople, inspiring fear across the known the...
Batu would serve as the kingmaker of the Mongol Empire. Introduction Batu Khan (l. 1205-1255 CE) was...
Mr. Erdogan’s decision to opt for a military solution fits the mold of a critical mass of...
These peoples were among the oldest Indo-European ethnolinguistic groups, one of the most archaic Introduction Anatolians were...
The Archaic Age saw the gradual culmination of developments in social and political organization in ancient Greece....
Sportsmen with roots in the Emerald Isle reshaped the image of the shantytwon ruffian. In his 1888...
For generations, a mysterious ethnic group was shunned, but new research sheds light on its Revolutionary War...
The official conversion of Kyivan Rus’ took place in 988, and imparted an exceptionally high status to...
Kievan Rus’, medieval Ukraine, played an important role in both Russia and Europe. Introduction Kievan Rus′ was...
They cleverly allied themselves with European powers in order to protect themselves from the Ottomans. Introduction The...
A mixed, cosmopolitan form of social and cultural life combining Hellenic (Greek) traditions with indigenous traditions emerged...
They were pioneers who didn’t know there was a glass ceiling as that term had not yet...
In 1918, the Marine Corps began investigating how the integration of women would take place. By Kenna...
In the 19th century, more people were reading more publications than ever before. This explains how technological,...
Exploring the way Victorians bought, borrowed and read their books, and the impact of the popular literature...
Written from a Mongolian perspective, the work is an invaluable record of their legends as well as...
Ogedei was a surprising choice for khan because he already had a reputation for often being drunk....
Ethnographer Daisy Bates recorded many Aboriginal languages in the early 20th century, which would otherwise be lost...
Linguists are using new technology to return decades-old recordings of near-extinct languages to the communities where they...
Examining a pivotal moment in Irish history that unleashed a new, Catholic force on Australian politics. On...
Italian nationalists carried out a string of attentats as assassination entered the anarchists’ toolkit. By Eric Laursen...
She was a woman who refused to submit to the religious beliefs and practices of her husband...
Archaeology, epigraphy, and literature function in tandem in order to establish a more coherent account. Introduction The...
They asked voters to sort through mounds of partisan propaganda and do whatever necessary to understand the...
Bitter political partisanship marked eleven previous presidential impeachment inquiries and the 1787 debate in Philadelphia. By Harlow...
With the Mongol invasion of Europe, the world had become a lot more violent and just a...
Ultimately, the Mongols would establish the largest empire the world had ever seen. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction...
The Sumerians first explored the practice of the scientific hypothesis. Introduction Mesopotamian science and technology developed during...
Examining the three Dynastic Periods from 2900 to 2334 BCE. Introduction The Early Dynastic Period of Mesopotamia...