Ultimately, the Mongols would establish the largest empire the world had ever seen. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction...
Month: October 2019
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...
The selling of indulgences was first practiced in the late thirteenth century and was changed after the...
Attachment to a notable place, person or item has been at the heart of religious and spiritual...
For American Christians — especially those privileged to hold political, economic, and social power — these are...
Early Christianity used the same artistic media as the surrounding Pagan culture. Introduction Early Christian art and...
Worries about game addiction since ancient times have given way to scientific understanding of the benefits of...
Some view a retreat from democracy and the escalating effects of climate change as an unfortunate coincidence....
The reconstruction of ancient climate is important to understand natural variation in climate and the evolution of...
It has been suggested that there is a correlation between demographic and social patterns and the flourishing...
We’ve always had those situations when we have to do the best trade-offs, especially when buying something...
Nobody likes to plan a funeral service, especially when it’s for a loved one. You need to...
Renaissance is one of the most interesting periods in history. It’s an ever-lasting inspiration for a college...
Memorable and extravagant, today’s student life hardly differs from the experiences students lived through in previous centuries....
How did U.S. and Native American artists portray Indian peoples of the West in the late nineteenth...
The late eighteenth century was marked by imperial competition, as European powers vied for control of land...
We see an interplay of Inka and Peruvian works. Signaling Spanish Dominance in Cuzco, Peru The transmission...
A mysterious object carved on a Roman gem reminds us that the smallest things hold clues to...
During the course of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed his allegiance on several occasions. Introduction Alcibiades Cleiniou...
The losses that Athens suffered in the Peloponnesian War show the sad consequences of the repeated unwillingness...
Weather often significantly affects history. Fox’s Jesse Waters dismissedclimate change in a not-so-nuanced manner: “It gets hot....
We will watch these parts of our image of the world wash away, unsure of what will...
A conversation with author Steven Greenhouse on history and reviving American unions. By Michael Winship This past...
Don’t believe the corporate lies. Today’s unions are growing, expanding, and boosting the wages and economic prospects...
Introduction In late July 1961, O Cruzeiro magazine—Brazil’s answer to the American magazine Life—sent photographer Henri Ballot...
Different classes of people, the occupations they held, and what nationality they were played a role in...
The scroll was discovered and painstakingly unrolled in 1795. More than 200 years ago, scholars glued the...
The Sumerians were responsible for many important innovations, inventions, and concepts taken for granted in the present...
How Ella Fitzgerald’s cassette campaign fueled a late-career renaissance. It’s the stuff of legends: an urban legend...