The contradiction in his character is particularly well illustrated by his behavior during the Philadelphia yellow fever...
History
The plague swept through Christian Europe and Islamdom at roughly the same time – between 1347 and...
The work covers the entire history of ancient Persia from the creation of the world to the...
These poets would affect the literary arts of cultures around the world and continue to inspire readers...
From the outbreak of war with Napoleonic France, Britain had enforced a naval blockade to choke off...
In the first years after the Revolutionary War, Americans found it difficult to acknowledge a debt or...
Jamestown quickly began expanding beyond the boundaries of the three-sided fort first built on the banks of...
From magic bowls to holy shirts, Muslim cultures used various devices to protect the user from harm...
Looking at how people thought about science and religion in the past can inform the contemporary world’s...
The “Christian nation” project, promoted by the Religious Right is a serious threat to America’s social, cultural,...
‘Wondirful revelacyons’, the moving of the soul through visionary experience, are the subject of Kempe’s narrative. Introduction...
The first evidence of Persian literature is usually dated to c.522 BCE with the creation of the...
It would appear in later works such as the Atrahasis, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and – most...
The history of the American labor movement is a history of external and internal struggle. Abstract This...
Industrialization led to a dramatic increase in child labor. Introduction This explores the dangerous, exhausting work undertaken...
Water appeared at the very beginning of Cherokee cosmology. When anthropologist James Mooney published the first of...
Impacts of the Spanish invasion on the pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas. Spanish Treasure In the age...
World War One created thousands of casualties from physical wounds, illness, and emotional trauma. Introduction The First...
One of the most common types of graffiti found lining the streets of Pompeii were political graffiti....
The Amarna letters reveal a treasury of knowledge concerning the political relations and social customs of their...
Examining how the popular media documented the people and activities of the homefront and the battlefront. Originally...
People drank for many different reasons and these reasons ranged across social class, gender, and region. Introduction...
Exploring tea time in the portrait of John, Fourteenth Lord Willoughby de Broke, and his Family. Because...
In archaic and classical Greece thrones were reserved for the gods and by extension, their priests and...
Examining the Macedonian king in combat. In his account of the preparations for the battle at Granicus,...
How the work of African American clubwomen deepens our understanding of the Great Migration and the Progressive...
The first historical account of Edwardian London’s elite canine veterinarians in the early 20th century. Introduction Previous...
Getty Museum curators share some of their favorite dogs in the collection. Introduction When we first asked...
A new theology that came to dominate British religion after the Reformation altering the relationship between the...
Religious ideas and cultural values exerted a powerful influence upon eugenics in an attempt to make it...