As a player and a coach, Walter Camp rewrote rugby’s rules to create a sport fit for...
Year: 2019
Social media activity, political knowledge, ideological intensity, and an interest in politics are significantly associated with political-consumer...
Examining the dietary and physiological requirements of a modern athlete and contrasting this with those of ancient...
Punishment for cheating and bribery in the Olympics of Ancient Greece could include fines, public flogging and...
Bull-leaping fresco from the east wing of the palace of Knossos (reconstructed), c. 1400 B.C.E., fresco, 78...
Bull’s head rhyton from the palace at Knossos, c. 1550-1500 B.C.E., black steatite, jasper, and mother-of-pearl, 26...
Without distractions, he produced some of his best writing there in exile. By Ted Lawrence, J.D. Some writers are...
Jame’s Laughlin’s life amalgamated many seemingly dissonant strains in twentieth-century America into a coherent whole. The American...
Times had taken a sharp turn for the worse. Lexington and Concord had changed everything. When the...
Americans were fed up. The “Intolerable Acts” were more than the colonies could stand. In the summer...
Gaining an understanding of the particular social processes involved in the transitional Terminal Classic period in this...
Because Mayan hieroglyphs have yet to be encoded, the ancient Mayan emperor K’inich Janaab’ Pakal would have...
Prior to 1951, there was no systematic way for the U.S. government to communicate with citizens during...
Twenty years from now, there will be no eyewitnesses left to tell their stories. Only twice in...
In this confidence trick, the criminal contacted the victim offering a large sum of money, or other...
The origins of the sixteenth President’s facial hair are more tangled than you might think. It’s a...
Hominin systematics, encompassing both taxonomy and phylogeny, has significant implications for how the evolution of species and...
DNA studies reveal that African elephants belong to a very successful and widespread family. For a long...
A community in so many ways defined by reinvention butting up against land prized for its preservation...
The humble sea turtle became the pinnacle of haute cuisine in the eighteenth century. From calipash to calipee, the green...
Political extremism seems to have spread to both sides of the Atlantic. By Dr. Jon X. Eguia...
The GOP has absorbed selected aspects of her rhetoric and larger aims of the libertarian purists. Ayn...
This was a stunning new phenomenon that shocked most of the older leaders of the Revolutionary Era....
Ruins of ancient Thebes A team of four men could produce 3,000 mudbricks per day. By Dr. Steven Snape...
Who were the Sumerians? Where did they originate? Who were the Sumerians? Where did they originate? For...
Russians have been charged with interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. If true, it’s not an...
When the German parliamentary building went up in flames, Hitler harnessed the incident to seize power. By...
High culture played an important political role in Hitler’s Germany. References to music, history, philosophy, and art...
Privilege was the beating heart of that society of orders known as Bourbon France. Privilege was the...
The politicization of the French peasantry before and during the Revolutionary period has been the topic of...