Analyzing the importance of Lagerlöf’s oeuvre and the complex depths beneath her seemingly simple tales and public...
History
In terms of its staging of sovereignty, passivity distinguished the Scottish king from the English tyrant. Introduction...
Shakespeare drew on earlier depictions of Richard III and other ruthless rulers in order to create his...
The trials for ambitus were numerous in the time of the republic. Introduction In ancient Roman law,...
Political offices and institutions were designed to prevent any one man from becoming too powerful. Political Institutions...
Appreciation of the quality and the artistry of the cards grew in the late 1800s. By John...
Exploring family gift giving and other holiday traditions, old and new. Happy, happy Christmas, that can win...
Sadly, Follen’s Christmas tree has gone largely forgotten. Karl Follen came to America from Germany in 1825...
Washington’s crossing of the Delaware on Christmas night 1776 led to victory, but terrible weather led to...
The pagans paved the way for our modern festivities. Introduction The idea of hanging up decorations in...
Ginger root was first cultivated in ancient China, where it was commonly used as a medical treatment....
Today’s headlines make climate change seem like a recent discovery. But people have been piecing it together...
The most lucrative cash crops to emerge from the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were...
Tobacco was first discovered by the native people of Mesoamerica and South America and later introduced to...
The masks were designed to protect them from putrid air, which was seen as the cause of...
As a result of anti-homosexuality laws in the UK in the 1950s, Alan was charged with gross...
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” Early Life...
It contains so many incredible violations of the laws of nature that it cannot possibly be accepted...
Written down in the mid-17th century BCE, the Atrahasis can be dated to the reign of the...
A tombstone commissioned by a man in memory of his deceased mother, “Siporah daughter of Dan”. Everything...
How the early Persians worshipped their gods is unknown except that it involved fire and outdoor altars....
Byzantine art had become much more expressive and imaginative by the twelfth century. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction...
The most famous series of wars in ancient Greek history broke out with a revolt against Persian...
Procedures for electing members of Congress in the early republic greatly differed from the single-district system that...
This was a period of great experimentation and change in the development of political parties. The framers...
Looking at crime in Elizabethan England and the brutal punishments offenders received. Thieves and Pickpockets The crowded...
During the American Revolution, Magna Carta served to inspire and justify action in liberty’s defense. “The democratic...
This refers to any one of several ancient Roman laws (leges maiestatis) dealing with crimes against the...
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There is no systematic collection of Greek laws, thus the knowledge the earliest notions of the subject...
One of our most common condiments was once very valuable and, until surprisingly recently, used as a...