The toxic properties of arsenic were known by Hippocrates in 370 BCE. By John Frith Introduction Arsenic...
History
In 1495 an epidemic of a new and terrible disease broke out among the soldiers of Charles...
Scurvy killed more than two million sailors between the time of Columbus’s transatlantic voyage and the rise...
The Code of Hammurabi and writings from ancient Greeks mention this “lung wasting” disease and their treatments...
Lela Mae and the others were unwitting pawns in a segregationist game. Introduction After three days on...
Russians refer to the event as the “Caribbean Crisis.” Cubans refer to it as the “October Crisis.”...
The use of forced labor and the development of labor camps to “re-educate” anyone deemed as “bourgeois”...
The city sought to sell bonds to pay for the war effort, while bringing its citizens together...
While tremendously popular in Britain, George was hated by rebellious American colonists. Introduction George III (George William...
The establishment of petroleum as a tradable commodity and natural resource triggered a paradigm shift in the...
Mechanical machinery in the medieval centuries used innovative sources of energy to generate motion and mechanical power....
Disease-bearing mice from lower Egypt reached the harbor town of Pelusium in 540 CE. By Thomas H....
Mark Antony, one of the most powerful politicians in the Roman Republic, offered the nation’s elected leader,...
His work catapulted Powers to international fame in the 19th century. Introduction They say Ideal beauty cannot...
Phips became governor of Massachusetts, arriving in Boston from England in May 1692, with the witch-hunt well...
The notion of religious liberty and of freedom of conscience was not recognized. Introduction Inquisition, (capitalized I)...
Christianity began in first century C.E. Jerusalem as a Jewish sect, but quickly spread throughout the Roman...
Dragons were one of the earliest creatures to appear in the tales and legends of ancient China....
The tlacuilo (codex painter) tradition endured the transition to colonial culture. Introduction Aztec codices (singular codex) are...
Aztec culture had complex mythological and religious traditions. Introduction The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central...
Lucretius was worried that our fear of death could lead to irrational beliefs and actions that could...
The skull of Oculudentavis provides new clues into the transition from dinosaurs to birds and may be...
The taxon Dinosauria was formally named by the English palaeontologist Richard Owen in 1842. Introduction Dinosaurs are...
More successful than most third parties, it had two senators and fourteen representatives sent to the thirty-first...
The Varyags are first mentioned by the Primary Chronicle as having exacted tribute from the Slavic and...
The name “Byzantine Empire” is a modern term and would have been alien to its contemporaries. Introduction...
Examining press reviews and accounts of the Japanese Village in London from newspapers and periodicals in 1885....
Examining the writings of The Mikado producers and opera reviewers in 1885, showing that the British were...
Habeas corpus can constitutionally be suspended – the question is by whom, Congress or the President? By...
Americans in the deepest sense went to war in 1861 to resolve the nature of the Union...