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In the early 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked. Introduction The Cottingley Fairies...
How a Kentucky grifter and his partner pulled off one of the era’s most spectacular scams –...
The resultant public mockery of the hoax created panic within the medical profession and ruined the careers...
The document’s validity had been contested since 1001 CE until finally proven to be a forgery. Introduction...
Though the modern video gaming industry is constantly involved in the development and marketing of video games,...
The modern gaming industry is exceptionally engaging. You can play an awful lot of incredible games right...
In 1800, postal officials began using selected post offices as distribution centers. 1808 Overview When we reflect...
The Postal Service Act, signed by President George Washington on February 20, 1792, established the Post Office...
Lincoln was that rare bird, a man who dealt in moral ideas without falling into moralism and...
Seeing Lincoln’s nationalism from an unlikely, and fresh, perspective: its connection, via the Enlightenment, to classical antiquity....
America has certainly had a lot of experience in difficulties in the change of governments in the...
Lincoln was presiding over a bloody civil war with waning popularity. But he steadfastly rejected pleas to...
Exploring the key events that contributed to the decline of feudalism in Europe from the 12th through...
Exploring the political and economic system that developed in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. Introduction Historians...
An unusually civil armistice in the most punishing conflict ever fought on American soil. One hundred and...
The loudest booms people had ever heard and the powerful stench of death on a staggering scale....
At the time period of Samuel Colt’s patent, the United States was on the verge of starting...
The contemporary Second Amendment debate is founded on serious misunderstandings. Introduction The Second Amendment is one of...
Although he became one of the founders of neuroscience, as a young man Ramón y Cajal wanted...
Paul Broca’s early scientific works dealt with the histology of cartilage and bone, but he also studied...
The Aztec painted language operated at two levels – identifying glyphs and strategic placement and presentation. Writing...
Exploring the science and stories behind the pigments, from the red ochre of Lascaux’s prehistoric cave to...
The society’s goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life, and abuses of state...
Barruel wrote that the French Revolution was planned and executed by the secret societies. Introduction Augustin Barruel...
This new outlook put great emphasis on reason as the key to human progress. Introduction The Enlightenment...
This movement led to the start of many new Christian churches that broke away from the Catholic...
Christians mounted violent campaigns against Jews and heretics in addition to the wars in Europe, North Africa,...
The Church had a close relationship with the English state throughout the Middle Ages. Introduction Medieval Religion...
The U.S. government used family separation and schools to try to erase Native American children’s traditional cultures...