The pervasiveness and extreme nature of North Korea’s personality cult surpasses that of even Joseph Stalin or...
History
The iconic image may have originated with a meat supplier named Samuel Wilson. Or not. A Patriotic...
Only one, Grover Cleveland, was successful. A year after the election of 2020, Donald Trump flirts with...
A mob of white supremacists armed with rifles and pistols marched on City Hall in Wilmington, North...
An international schoolboy exchange program was used by the Nazis to favorably influence public opinion of the...
“No one knows but the birds where I hid my money.” Aristophanes wrote in the 5th century BCE...
The galleons were well-armed with cannons and packed with troops. Introduction From the 16th to 18th centuries,...
Finding a locked box spilling over with gold, emeralds, and pearls was something of an uncommon jackpot...
Take a look at these gambling books It is critical to read. The men and women of...
Women today stand on the shoulders of those who fought for thousands of years for basic rights....
Women were treated as property and often forced into prostitution by a patriarchal hierachy. Introduction Prostitution in...
Christianity followed an old pattern when it developed its own rules of behavior for “the Christian life.”...
Ancient Greek houses frequently had a “complex pattern of spatial usage”, with rooms being used for multiple...
The Roman house was, as is true today, where the nuclear family lived. When one thinks of...
Alpine cottages arose, unexpectedly, amid the hillocks and modest streams of 19th-century England. This article, Little Switzerlands:...
The barracks emperors rose in response to a series of threats to the stability of the state....
Knights were the most-feared and best-protected warriors on the medieval battlefield. Introduction The knights of medieval Europe were meant...
The buccaneers were largely English, Dutch, and French united by a hatred of Spain and a desire...
Already in 1st-century CE Rome there was a Christian community. Introduction The central figure of the medieval...
The Carolingian kings and emperors dominated the politics but faced constant challenges to their rule. Introduction The Carolingian...
The Chronicle of Widukind, from around 970, relates how Harald ordered the rejection of the old gods....
New research suggests that fire from the sky in the form of a small asteroid annihilated a...
Anton Pannekoek was a Dutch astronomer whose politics informed his human approach to studying the cosmos. This...
Preparing tombs correctly was a common theme in ancient Egyptian texts. Why Prepare for Death? The ancient...
The Bardo Thodol was written to be read to the spirit of the deceased. Introduction The Tibetan Book of the...
In the 1700s, Day of the Dead generated the largest annual market in Mexico City. Introduction As...
Distinctions concerning sexual identity only began to appear after the rise of Christianity. Introduction In the cultures...
The military unit is first mentioned in 324 BCE in the speech ‘Against Demosthenes’. Introduction The Sacred Band...
Same-sex relationships were regarded as simply another expression of human sexuality in the cultures of ancient civilizations....
The force consisted of around 68,000 men at its peak in the early 1650s. Introduction The New Model...