Persepolis has a long and complex history, designed to be the central city of the ever expanding...
History
This period is characterized by major cultural and political changes. Historical Overview During the Early Dynastic period...
The history of transgender and gender nonconforming people in the United States is one of struggle, but...
How knowledge, belief, sex, and power were viewed in the medieval world. Knowledge The way medieval eyes...
A rough genealogy of the way in which the central narrative of Buddhism ended up in a...
During the war, the top “marginal rate” was 94%, but 94% of what? Recent history shows tax...
Marketers decided to focus on the ‘purity’ of factory food processing – a successful strategy that other...
The economic decline was marked by a severe drop in population. By Dr. Murray N. RothbardHistorian and...
Wealthy landowners enclosed (privatized) the commons for their own profits, impoverishing many villagers. By Jay Walljasper Medieval...
By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Regional, inter-regional and international trade was a common feature of the Roman world....
With the stroke of a pen 75 years ago, two men changed the world and sealed the...
Establishing a nation in which the people were sovereign and the aristocracy had no place. The North...
The excised passage was not then without effect and ought not now to be without effect. In...
They were part of the Armenian millet until the Tanzimat reforms in the nineteenth century equalized all...
The Byzantine Empire had an important cultural legacy, both on the Orthodox Church and on the revival...
The war ended in a stalemate with the border between North and South Korea near where it...
A brief introduction to famous African rulers and their impact on medieval and Renaissance European culture. By Dr....
They formed the king’s personal bodyguard and were also considered the shock troops of the infantry in...
The blood moon myths are many and varied, but, at the end of the day, it’s just...
The Emancipation Proclamation Inspired New Year’s celebrations that endure to this day. For young Ed McCree, enslaved...
American colonists actually celebrated New Year on March 25th! By Eryn Dion While modern day New Year’s...
Medieval church courts in York shows that the same January divorce pattern prevailed as far back as...
Lately, much news from the field of paleoarchaeology and anthropology has centered on Neanderthal bedfellows. By Dr....
For the source of his story, Arthur Miller looked back to the Salem witch trials of 1692....
The Enlightenment of the late 17th and the 18th century called for the re-examination of classical concepts....
The kingdom of Kongo, with a population of well over 2 million people at its peak, prospered...
The Mali Empire was the largest and richest empire yet seen in West Africa to that time....
A 2,700-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Iraq depicts the demon that the ancient Assyrians thought caused epilepsy....
Examining the contributions of Frederick Jackson Turner and Alfred Thayer Mahan to the conscious creation of an...
The Delhi Sultanate, which lasted from 1206 to 1526, is known as a period of cultural intermixing....