The Chancay lived on the central coast of Peru from c.1000 C.E. until their conquest by the...
Month: June 2020
Conservationists must seize the agenda to put biodiversity at the heart of climate policy. Originally published by...
Designing whole net zero campuses and communities takes the energy and climate benefits to a higher level....
Rock art is the primary source to study the culture, rituals, traditions, and lives of prehistoric societies....
The first appearance of these drawings can be dated back to the age of Epipaleolithic (20000-1000 BP)....
Demagogues and others who want to manipulate have learned that this human trait can be exploited, often...
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than “the unity of nature.” Alexander von...
The story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, and contentious debates led to a discovery. By...
What two pioneers of color movies saw in a 16th-century Renaissance painting. Rosso Fiorentino has no star...
Looking at a selection of films that present a global Middle Ages, a chronologically flexible period from...
In medieval England, churches had a moral duty – and even a legal obligation – to protect...
The Praetorian Guard became notable for its intrigue and interference in Roman politics. Introduction The Praetorian Guard...
The global pandemic has harmed the jobs market. However, this does not mean that there are no...
Philadelphia experienced a tumult of both anti-French and anti-Federalist sentiment. Philadelphia, as capital of the United States...
When Mary, Queen of Scots was executed in 1578, Philip had one more reason to attack England....
Roman law came to have an immense effect on law as actually practiced in the medieval world....
The difference between prehistoric and ancient warfare is more organization oriented than technology oriented. Introduction Ancient warfare...
Thrasybulus was helping his ally Periander, the tyrant of Corinth. By Sergey M. ZhestokanovProfessor of ArchaeologySt. Petersburg...
The classics contain many references to tyranny and its causes, effects, methods, practitioners, alternatives. Introduction In the...
White citizens in the South organized a “Massive Resistance” campaign against integration. A Segregated Society An 1896...
De facto segregation continues today because of both contemporary behavior and the historical legacy of de jure...
How America’s housing system undermines wealth-building in communities of color. Originally published by Center for American Progress,...
Eliminating racial disparities in economic well-being requires long-term, targeted interventions. Originally published by Center for American Progress,...
Slavery was abolished over 150 years ago in the United States, but the hard work of achieving...
Introduction From the start of European expansion into the Atlantic world, Britain fought other powers for territory...
Entrenched structural racism continues to corrupt American democracy and preserve racial inequality. Originally published by Center for...
The worldwide movement against slavery (still not entirely eliminated) can be seen as a coming of age...
Almost all peoples have been both slaves and slaveholders at some point in their histories. Introduction Various...
Colonial powers through the ages have been masters of appropriating the native cultures of foreign lands, waiting...
The doctrine of “state action” is integral to American Constitutional law. Originally published by CALI eLangdell Press...