Where the term comes from and how the meaning has changed. Introduction You probably know what it...
History
LGBTQ history in the United States spans the contributions and struggles of individuals as well as the...
After World War II, conservative Protestants rejected the separatist stance and began calling themselves evangelicals. Introduction In...
Christianity spread around the world, largely due to the energy unleashed by the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Introduction...
A museum display of artifacts looted from the West Bank raises questions about the role archaeology plays...
Little if any direct archeological evidence exists concerning Abraham. Introduction In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Abraham is a...
Not only was the children’s march relegated to lesser news, it was delivered without many pictures. Images...
The international success of the worthless pills was due to the marketing skills of a Canadian politician....
An 18th-century doctor of homeopathy executed for the murder of his wife. But did he do it?...
Hoover became increasingly worried about communist threats against the United States – and it morphed into all-encompassing...
Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive...
A number of issues were involved in the Civil War, all inextricably bound to the institution of...
Medicine had become highly professionalized by the late Middle Ages and was patriarchal, but women like Trotula...
More Americans are learning about the 1921 massacre in Tulsa. It is part of this author’s family...
It has been called “the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.” Introduction The Tulsa...
The plague’s social and cultural impact has been compared to that of the Black Death that devastated...
The Roman Empire repeatedly faced an uncertain future. Introduction Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of...
In 44 BC, at the celebration of the Lupercalia, Julius Caesar, seated in a gilded chair at...
Luckily, there are more travel options for children these days than pinning some postage to their shirts...
School systems realized that they couldn’t deal with the pandemic on their own. Introduction Much like what...
How a symbolic climb changed two men. This is the story of one of the tallest volcanoes...
How ancient emperors used oratory, ceremony, and triumphal architecture to memorialize their fallen enemies. Introduction Damnatio memoriae,...
Many emperors were raised to gods after death, but just as many received the opposite – officially...
The issue that started the 1877 affair was not police brutality and institutional racism but economic inequality....
The use of federal troops in a law enforcement role has a twisted and often anti-working class...
They had sophisticated medical treatments at their fingertips – from preventative hygiene to prosthetics. Introduction The conventional...
How he chronicled, commemorated, and mourned his many loved ones who succumbed. This article, Petrarch’s Plague: Love,...
Tutor and advisor to Nero, he was ordered to commit suicide – by Nero. Introduction Lucius Annaeus...
The theater covered such diverse themes as history, romance, revenge, murder, comedy, and tragedy. Introduction Elizabethan theatre,...
In renaissance Italy, displays of grief were expected to be moderated. Why Mourning Matters A life-size, terracotta...