During Queen Victoria’s reign Britain was the most powerful trading nation in the world. Introduction Victorian advances...
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His death prompted a quite extraordinary explosion of mourning around the world. Introduction Abraham Lincoln yearned to...
Jefferson, ever sanguine, was merely trying to make the best of a wretched scenario. A yellow-fever epidemic...
He wrote of everything from daily death counts to quack remedies. Introduction In early April, writer Jen...
His reign is commonly considered to mark the end of the golden period in the history of...
The bronze colossus originally portrayed Nero, thereafter Commodus, before it was given its present appearance in the...
Examining the slow transition whereby reputable practitioners differentiated themselves from ‘quacks’. Abstract Trust is not automatically granted...
Kircher’s investigation can be seen as an important early step to understanding contagion. This article, “Invisible Little...
There was a brief moment in 1381 when a better world struggled to be born, but the...
The Plague ushered in a new understanding which found expression in movements such as the Protestant Reformation...
The Aeneid was written to praise Augustus by drawing parallels between him and the protagonist, Aeneas. Introduction...
The Hellenistic world which had had no monarch for half a decade after Alexander suddenly had a...
A woman tells the story of her Holocaust survival through her embroidered art. “I am not going...
An exhibit touring many sites where Jewish culture and medicine intersect. By Paula Wasley Introduction Your bubbe was not...
Any idea of separation of church and state was anathema until our Framers, knowing this history, guaranteed...
The fact that the Puritans had left England to escape religious persecution did not mean that they...
The text of the inscription is a statement by Darius I of Persia, written three times in...
The Hittite civilization was one of the cradles of human culture. Introduction “Hittites” is the conventional English-language...
Marx was a seminal figure in twentieth-century landscape design and plant conservation. By Tom Christopher Born in...
Sentenced to death but acquitted in a public trial based upon his father’s appeal. The Story According...
The early Achaemenid kings may or may not have been adherents of Zoroastrianism but that religion would...
Archaeologists have long argued over when and how people first domesticated horses. Introduction In the increasingly urbanized...
Working abroad is an experience that many young, ambitious professionals seek when starting out in their careers....
Whether we like it or not, John C. Calhoun is still very much with us today. Originally...
Why aren’t Delaware and Georgia included and why did he combine four northeastern colonies into one? The...
The Spanish saw nothing of value in the indigenous culture and set out to systematically destroy everything...
Aztec civilization sustained millions of people and developed over thousands of years isolated from European and Asian...
Donald Trump stumps up to the podium every day and makes a fool of himself. By Heather...
Examining the visit of Du Huan to Molin-guo and Laobosa. Abstract This article focuses on the first...
Trade routes spanned China in early Shang dynasty times, but it was from mid-Zhou times that commerce...