You likely understand that drinking and driving is bad, but resisting that urge can be difficult after...
Month: March 2020
Have you been holding off on your plans to start a small business? Hold off no more!...
More successful than most third parties, it had two senators and fourteen representatives sent to the thirty-first...
The need to win popular support in a republic led to the American emergence of voter-based political...
The Varyags are first mentioned by the Primary Chronicle as having exacted tribute from the Slavic and...
The name “Byzantine Empire” is a modern term and would have been alien to its contemporaries. Introduction...
Tutankhamun began his reign at age 9. Introduction Nebkheperure Tutankhamun (King Tut) was a Pharaoh of the...
For thousands of years, the civilization of Egypt was among the most significant in the ancient world....
COVID-19 is not the first – nor likely the last – to emerge from the two continents....
Examining press reviews and accounts of the Japanese Village in London from newspapers and periodicals in 1885....
Examining the writings of The Mikado producers and opera reviewers in 1885, showing that the British were...
Habeas corpus can constitutionally be suspended – the question is by whom, Congress or the President? By...
Americans in the deepest sense went to war in 1861 to resolve the nature of the Union...
The fascinating history of Pompeii’s “little sister”, the town of Herculaneum. Introduction In the first part of...
Pausanius is best known for his ten-volume work, Description of Greece, detailing his travels through the country,...
The internet has allowed pseudoscience to flourish. Artificial intelligence could help steer people away from the bad...
In the dying days of empire, the British financed a global cinema service. Introduction It’s 1945. A...
Empire was a consistent theme in these hundreds of pamphlets. In the Great War, the British government...
Inspired by amber and hard candy, researchers figured out a new, needle-free, shelf-stable way to preserve vaccines....
This being the Trump era, we find ourselves engulfed in two realities. By Bill Moyers ANNOUNCER: Welcome...
Swift was a heavily politically involved and prolific writer. Introduction Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October...
Three types of historical writing flourished in the Middle Ages: chronicles, hagiography, and the rhetorical monograph. By...
While we don’t get to decide when we get shipwrecked, we do get to decide what we...
Understanding through reason, self-discipline in wisdom and virtue. Introduction Stoicism, one of the three major schools of...
Local business owners are always looking for ways to improve their visibility and attract new customers—while incentivizing...
An educational experiment that is still going strong. By Sallie Godwin In 2016, when Stacey Craig composed...
Recent research explores how women ‘dress defensively’ to avoid the aggression of other women. “If you can’t...
Just leave it to a group of fiercely determined women to make a name for themselves behind...
Thousands of women took different paths and pursued multiple strategies to win the goal of securing the...
More and more patients are forced to travel outside of their communities for care. This week the...