The development of Korean literature is quite unique due to the creation of a complete new language...
History
A history of architecture favoring practicality, frugality, and harmony with nature. Introduction Korean architecture refers to the...
In the years following the American Revolution, speed was the most important consideration for ships. Introduction The...
Roughly fifty years after a handful of suffragists conceived the idea, it became a hard-fought reality. Introduction...
The more that efforts to suppress voting rights in America change, the more they remain the same....
Apocalyptic predictions are nothing new—they have been around for millennia. The First Warnings From Assyria An Assyrian...
In ancient texts, apocalyptic messages cultivated endurance and encouragement through dire circumstances. Introduction With streets deserted, hospitals...
Rationed foods were categorized as either needing red or blue points. Introduction The events on December 7,...
By Tom MorainHistorian Introduction Farmers struggled with low prices all through the 1920s, but after 1929 things...
This flu was different from others. It was especially brutal. By Jeffrey AndersonHistorian The Deaths Began The...
His actions in office set a precedent for a strong executive branch and a strong central government....
A historian of the Bible explains how ancient Israelites changed the ways of their worship. As the...
The foundational Jewish texts assert that a fetus does not attain the status of personhood until birth....
Pregnancy and birth have been represented by human beings since pre-historic times in every form of human...
Exploring the rise of the phenomenon in the U.S. This article, Eastern Sports and Western Bodies: The...
How did Twain’s Huckleberry Finn engage and challenge popular ideas about slavery and race in nineteenth-century America?...
How did literature help make sense of the war and the profound changes it brought to the...
What is the context for Shakespeare’s Roman plays? Why did classical Rome capture the interest of people...
Trees were utilized in building construction and for ceremonial ornaments and daily implements. Introduction The Jomon period...
Migrants found both opportunity and hardship in modernizing California. Introduction In the half-century between the Civil War...
Improved agricultural output and a political climate dedicated to ensuring cheap food led to a dramatic increase...
Islamic medicine was built on tradition, chiefly the theoretical and practical knowledge developed in Greece and Rome....
Ancient Sparta could be considered the most fully-realized form of gerontocracy that any state has ever implemented....
How to turn language, the core operating system of the humanities, into numbers. Stephen Mitchell suffered from...
Success did not come easy to Einstein. It took six minutes, fifty-one seconds for Albert Einstein to...
How did writers and audiences in late Victorian England and America explore the idea of a hidden...
Examining Georgian England’s new craze for sea-bathing. The Wellcome Library has a first edition of a book...
Corroborating Prudence’s wartime adventures is difficult. Introduction Prudence Patterson was born in 1743 (either in Wales or...
What forms has dissent taken in U.S. history? What is the role of dissent in a representative...
Introduction The coronavirus pandemic has created what feels like an unprecedented situation in the District: Schools are...