Many emperors were raised to gods after death, but just as many received the opposite – officially...
History
The issue that started the 1877 affair was not police brutality and institutional racism but economic inequality....
The use of federal troops in a law enforcement role has a twisted and often anti-working class...
They had sophisticated medical treatments at their fingertips – from preventative hygiene to prosthetics. Introduction The conventional...
How he chronicled, commemorated, and mourned his many loved ones who succumbed. This article, Petrarch’s Plague: Love,...
Tutor and advisor to Nero, he was ordered to commit suicide – by Nero. Introduction Lucius Annaeus...
The theater covered such diverse themes as history, romance, revenge, murder, comedy, and tragedy. Introduction Elizabethan theatre,...
In renaissance Italy, displays of grief were expected to be moderated. Why Mourning Matters A life-size, terracotta...
Internal virtues, including gender characteristics, were believed to be communicated through outward appearance. Ideal Representative of Masculinity...
They were founded in 1113 CE with the full name of ‘Knights of the Order of the...
Byzantine texts interpreted the domed church as a microcosm – a three-dimensional image of the cosmos. Ecstatic...
Claudette was arrested at the age of 15, nine months before Rosa Parks refused to yield her...
The “40 acres and a mule” promised to formerly enslaved Africans never came to pass. Introduction Underlying...
If King Arthur existed at all, we will probably never know the truth about what he was...
He is known for his participation in the Olympic Games and his attempt to expand his kingdom...
The German Resistance movement consisted of several disparate strands that were ultimately unable to bring Hitler down....
Typically the key “privilege” was that only guild members were allowed to sell their goods or practice...
Guilds secured the monopoly and the commerce of the cities, controlling the various activities and selling all...
The ancient Egyptians believed that, if one adhered to ma’at, one would live a harmonious existence. Introduction...
Rulers used law codes either to justify their rule or to demonstrate examples of justice and due...
Literary being is beyond our control: maybe in this, and only in this, does it coincide with...
Since ancient times animals have been the source of medicinal substances used in various cultures. Abstract Animals...
It can be dated to 12,000-10,000 BCE though most accounts – especially concerning the dog – date...
People have lived with infectious disease throughout the millennia, with culture and biology influencing each other. Introduction...
How lesbian authors have reinvented the imagined spaces of the U.S. South through print culture, activism, and...
Women’s historic struggles to vote continue to resonate as the country debates who should vote and how....
The allure of novel goods was so strong that it triggered 1,000 years of trade and interactions...
The Etymologiae was copied so often by scribes and transmitted so widely that it was second only...
Insights into the lives of African Americans at Arlington and other plantations in the Upper South before...
They created self-contained enclaves characterized by a southern Protestantism in sharp contrast to Mexican Catholicism. The defeat...