In the wake of Andrew Johnson’s impeachment, the American public grew tired of politicians and political wrangling....
Month: July 2020
During the Gilded Age, Congress was known for being rowdy and inefficient. Introduction At the outset of...
We should not fool ourselves: It could happen here. By Barbara Miner On Sept. 11, 1973, I...
From the 14th through the 16th centuries, Europe crackled with energy. Introduction The period in Europe known...
Exploring the Italian city-state of Florence to learn about a number of advances made there during the...
Ephialtes’ reforms are considered by Aristotle and modern scholars to mark the end of the Areopagite constitution....
The people of Athens commissioned Draco to devise a written law code and constitution, giving him the...
It’s final collapse was brought about by Allied military victories plus the open rebellion of the people....
Fascism is a far-right theory of government that opposes the political philosophies of the Englightenment and the...
A growing shortage of affordable rental housing and a simultaneous increase in poverty. Originally published by the...
The story of the DSEU helps fill in gaps on working women in the Great Depression By...
At the heart of the struggle was the continuing story that new unions were claiming freedoms and...
Suddenly an overbearing and oppressive government isn’t cause for defense and retaliation. Militias and many other Second...
The original Green Mountain Boys were a militia in what is now Vermont in the decade prior...
The early colonists of America considered the militia an important social institution, necessary to provide defense and...
It is estimated that close to 300 billion liters of tea are drunk each year. This makes...
To begin, a disclaimer for this article: This is not an attempt to sanitise the legacy of...
Geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean. Introduction...
Franklin was born a century ago, and her X-ray crystallography work crucially contributed to determining the structure...
Exploring the literary context in which American Renaissance writers wrote and published. Originally published by Newberry Digital...
Gothic literature has a long, complex, and multi-layered history. Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections for the...
Many people who participate in disinformation campaigns are unwitting accomplices. The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned an infodemic,...
The plague remained endemic for 300 years, returning every so often to cull the population. Introduction In...
Medieval people firmly believed in God and occult powers. By Véronique SoreauPhD Student in English and Anglo-Saxon...
History is a thing that comprises a variety of events from different aspects of life as well...
One goal Hayes didn’t accomplish as president – invigorating black education – he worked for as an...
Grant was accused with packing the court, the same charge later leveled against FDR in 1937. Introduction...
For many centuries explanations for disease were based not on science, but on religion, superstition, and myth....
Diseases have often influenced historical events, but they are neglected in the documentation of these events. Human...
We all need to be worried. 2020 is continuing to bring deeply worrying climate news from both...