Efforts were made with the discovery of instruments to list the stars, to measure distances and angles...
History
Selling alcohol in late Victorian Britain required a degree of cunning, ingenuity, and a leap of imagination....
He killed his “owner” and fled slavery before finally returning to England in 1604 and embarking to...
Trials were very much a public affair, held out-of-doors or in basilicas; private homes might themselves have...
When one is “brewminating” over the middle ages, anywhere between the collapse of the Roman empire to...
“Enlightenment is the human being’s emancipation from its self-incurred immaturity.” By Santana Juache Introduction The Enlightenment stemmed...
The Enlightenment’s chronology, spatiality, and content in the context of the Industrial Revolution. Introduction In 1997 Robert...
Construction could sometimes take decades to complete these massive defensive structures. Introduction Medieval fortification refers to medieval...
The Middle Ages saw the emergence of the castle in Europe, which then spread to Western Asia....
To this day we say: “a man who is worth his salt.” In ancient Rome, this was...
It was a full scale political revolution carried out by less advantaged Romans that redefined the Roman...
Bacon’s Rebellion can be attributed to a myriad of causes, all of which led to dissent in...
He set the stage for Julius Caesar to later seize political power through force and end Republican...
Cincinnatus was a conservative opponent of the rights of the plebeians (the common citizens) who fell into...
The purpose was to sell more quinine and to remind the world that the Dutch empire was...
Introduction The scientific work that led to the discovery of the causes of infections was possibly the...
Yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia in 1793. “A new order of things is rising in medicine, as well...
It was sought after post-execution to cure a variety of swellings, wens in particular. Abstract From the...
The growing sense of nationalism in England was one of the underlying causes of the Wyatt Rebellion....
The Law, not the State, was the citadel of Roman sovereignty. I Others shall beat out the...
Women’s roles present in the emerging United States before, during, and after the American Revolution. Introduction “Republican...
Historical material about the bodily and emotional experience of the period after birth has been relatively neglected....
How three artists, from three different eras, depicted motherhood. Introduction The first official Mother’s Day holiday was...
Many women in ancient Greece led interesting lives and performed heroic acts and who remain lesser known...
Hathor was a multifaceted goddess, appealed to for a wide variety of needs, who provided many of...
The author of Enuma Elish drew on the earlier Sumerian goddesses, Nammu and Inanna, to create the...
Economic crisis, impoverishment, and elite conflict led Athens to be managed by individual rulers, the last tyrants...
Cassander embarked on an ambitious plan to control the region and solidify his power in Macedonia. Cassander’s...
The late 19th century saw the creation of a modern industrial economy during the rise of robber...
During the Civil War Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1861 which included a tax on personal...