Artillery machines were used to good effect throughout antiquity and the medieval era. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction...
Year: 2019
Viking warfare connected with the expansion of Scandinavian influence along the North Atlantic and into the Mediterranean....
After their victory in the first Opium War, the British acquired Hong Kong under the 1842 Treaty...
The new vistas of China available after the development of the East India trade attracted many Chinese...
Chimera from Arezzo, c. 400 B.C.E., bronze, 129 cm in length, (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence) By Dr. Jeffrey...
Scientific analysis of four rare sculptures of mourning women furthers understanding of South Italian funerary art. Introduction...
During the European Enlightenment, a number of authors presented Muhammad as an anticlerical hero. Publishing the Quran...
Since the early days of monasticism, the presence of nuns led to restrictions that limited contact between...
If you’re a Christian in the US, these are a bunch of unearned benefits you get that...
Though it’s seldom mentioned by name, it’s one of the major forces in politics today: dominion theology,...
Donatello, St. Mark, 1411-13, marble, 93″ (236 cm) (Orsanmichele, Florence). Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris...
Double page opening: Provinces Bringing Tribute (f.23v.) and Ruler Portrait of Otto III (f.24) Gospels of Otto III,...
After looting its treasures, Alexander burned the great palace and surrounding city to the ground, as Xerxes...
The author would have constructed the narrative to place the events in the past in order to...
Before you attribute a trait to a famous ancestor like George Washington or Marie Antoinette, you might...
It was the biggest constitutional crisis since Henry VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon. By Anna Pasternak It...
From its earliest years, the Senate has jealously guarded its power to review and approve or reject...
Teaching early American history needs to be expansive and accurate, not mythologized. American history courses usually begin...
Although a saint, a bishop, and an important figure in a turbulent age, Sidonius is remembered particularly...
This period of ancient Indian history is known as the Vedic age, as it was depicted in...
The earliest cave paintings here are about 30,000 years old. Introduction The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site...
Working people deserve a better standard of living for completing what society demands. By Daniel Wasik Daniel...
Examining the associations known as ‘collegia’ mentioned in the letters (10.33-34) from the Roman pro-consul Pliny to...
Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. Introduction The social structure of ancient Rome was based on heredity,...
Completed in 691 CE, the Dome of the Rock is the oldest extant Islamic building in the...
Discovered in 1925, the skull was the first fossilized archaic human found in Western Asia. Introduction Mugharet...
For some Euro-enthusiasts, who have long sought Europe’s “emancipation” from the United States, such a prospect might...
NATO is girding up for what some believe is a new Cold War with Russia, but President...
The League represents the most successful attempt by the Greek city states to develop a collective government...
Athens’s heavy-handed control of the Delian League ultimately prompted the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Introduction The Delian...