No Framer wrote with more exacting clarity about the newly invented presidency than Alexander Hamilton. In the...
History
She presided over Georgia’s greatest territorial expansion, taking advantage of the decline of other major powers in...
As the last Ptolemaic heir of Alexander the Great, she remained committed to his policy of cultural...
Like modern slavery, it was an abusive and degrading institution. Slavery in ancient Rome differed from its...
At the heart of Roman conceptions of citizenship was a covenant between the individual citizen and the...
Cassius Dio is best known for his 80-volume Roman History. Introduction Cassius Dio (c. 164 – c. 229/235...
The city’s monuments (and their ruins) are cues for memory, discourse, and discovery. Views of Rome The...
During the colonial era, laws related to the death penalty were primarily influenced by the European system....
The Great Depression of the 1930s was not the only one in America’s history. Traditional Sources of...
Fears of great wealth and the need for economic equality go back to the country’s origins. Introduction...
The young republic might have ceased to exist and may have become a mere footnote in the...
The American Revolution established the general outlines of the future Ordnance Department. By Karl RubisOrdnance Branch HistorianUnited...
Mysteries in general are very exciting as they have a way of letting our minds wander and...
Keep in mind the great diversity of the Islamic world. Only a minority of Muslims were from...
Exploring how the Islamic faith quickly spread throughout Arabia and beyond. Introduction Muhammad was born around 570...
Saints were sometimes associated with protecting animals, particularly in magical texts or ‘charms’. St Francis of Assisi...
The earliest account of demon sex in Jewish and Christian traditions comes from the Book of Genesis....
In the early 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked. Introduction The Cottingley Fairies...
How a Kentucky grifter and his partner pulled off one of the era’s most spectacular scams –...
The resultant public mockery of the hoax created panic within the medical profession and ruined the careers...
The document’s validity had been contested since 1001 CE until finally proven to be a forgery. Introduction...
In 1800, postal officials began using selected post offices as distribution centers. 1808 Overview When we reflect...
The Postal Service Act, signed by President George Washington on February 20, 1792, established the Post Office...
Lincoln was that rare bird, a man who dealt in moral ideas without falling into moralism and...
Seeing Lincoln’s nationalism from an unlikely, and fresh, perspective: its connection, via the Enlightenment, to classical antiquity....
America has certainly had a lot of experience in difficulties in the change of governments in the...
Lincoln was presiding over a bloody civil war with waning popularity. But he steadfastly rejected pleas to...
Exploring the key events that contributed to the decline of feudalism in Europe from the 12th through...
Exploring the political and economic system that developed in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. Introduction Historians...
An unusually civil armistice in the most punishing conflict ever fought on American soil. One hundred and...