A new data analysis by ProPublica and the Urban Institute shows more than half of older U.S....
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The archaeological evidence is clear, but the mechanisms of diffusion are still not entirely understood. By Dr....
A Phoenician-Punic ship from a relief carving on a 2nd century CE sarcophagus / Photo by NMB, Wikimedia...
This painting by Roberto Bompiani captures a common 19th-century association of Roman dining and excess. A Roman Feast,...
An overview of the main phases of the history of globalization, as well as of radical structural breaks....
Monetary, fiscal, military, political, and economic issues are all very much intertwined. Lecture by Dr. Joseph R....
A medieval baker with his apprentice (scanned from The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black). As both business...
Fear of facing society’s ostracism for failure to pay them back has left borrowers alienated and trapped...
Night of August 4th, abolition of feudality and fiscal privileges, by Léopold Morice / Photo by Teofilo,...
Mosaic of amphorae being unloaded from a ship, Ostia / Southampton University, Creative Commons The trade networks...
The Greeks failed miserably to see the need for the development of a discipline, economic science, devoted...
Union members and construction workers hold a rally on May 22 in Columbus Circle in New York...
Economic, legal, and social institutions emerged that were essential to the development of an extensive and complex...
The country’s most vulnerable populations were the hardest hit. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 08.27.2018 Historian...
While it is misleading to view the stock market crash of 1929 as the sole cause of...
A One Hundred Dollar Confederate States of America banknote dated December 22, 1862. Issued during the American...
Mysia Islands off Troas, Tenedos. Circa 100-70 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 16.27 g 12). / Photo by Exekias,...
The historical emergence and use of money is an important question. By Dr. Alexander W. Salter /...
Men stand in line outside a depression soup kitchen, 1931 / Public Domain Far less has been...
“Roosevelt’s and the other founders’ words and actions make clear that they envisioned Social Security to be...
Socialists in Union Square, New York City, May 1, 1912 / Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons Socialism...
Toronto in lovely black and white / Photo by Steve Harris, via Flickr creative commons Just what...
Protestors demonstrate outside the University of Michigan Stadium May 1, 2010 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. U.S. President...
By Sam Pizzigati / 06.28.2018 The health of our American economy ultimately rests on a single, simple...
Walmart employees picket outside of a Walmart store in Los Angeles, California on November 29, 2013. (Photo: Aurelio...
Shutterstock If big employers had more competition, they’d have to pay their workers better. By Michael Taillard...
Rich people like Sean Hannity can easily get even richer off foreclosed homes, leaving families out in...
By Jennifer Turner, J.D. / 03.06.2018 Human Rights Researcher ACLU Human Rights Program When Roz, a mother...
William James Bennett, “View of South Street, from Maiden Lane, New York City,” ca. 1827 / Metropolitan Museum...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.24.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief The Agriculture Market Landscape Introduction The agricultural...