Ancient Sparta could be considered the most fully-realized form of gerontocracy that any state has ever implemented....
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How to turn language, the core operating system of the humanities, into numbers. Stephen Mitchell suffered from...
Success did not come easy to Einstein. It took six minutes, fifty-one seconds for Albert Einstein to...
How did writers and audiences in late Victorian England and America explore the idea of a hidden...
Examining Georgian England’s new craze for sea-bathing. The Wellcome Library has a first edition of a book...
Corroborating Prudence’s wartime adventures is difficult. Introduction Prudence Patterson was born in 1743 (either in Wales or...
What forms has dissent taken in U.S. history? What is the role of dissent in a representative...
Introduction The coronavirus pandemic has created what feels like an unprecedented situation in the District: Schools are...
Incidents of polio increased to epidemic proportions after 1900. What was going on? Introduction Poliomyelitis (polio) is...
Mary McLeod Bethune founded a college, defied the Klan, advised presidents, and was a fierce warrior for...
In their last days, the suffragist pioneers looked back and left us their story in letters. “It...
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Examining how cats have been historically represented since the ancient world. Introduction Furry friends can be comforting...
Analysis of a bronze cat reveals clues about its ancient past. By Jeffrey Maish, Judith Barr, and...
The Transcontinental Railroad facilitated the colonization of western territories by encouraging new settlements on Indigenous lands. The...
She was an outspoken critic of harsh treatment of the Paiute in the American West. For the...
The women chose psychological sabotage and developed unique strategies. Introduction Nearly all the 1.3 million people sent...
A medieval person would have looked upon the owl and the birds and seen a Christian parable....
Plebeians sought to enforce reform on Patricians – and it worked. First, what happened in politics at...
The plague, named the Black Death by later historians, had a devastating effect on the European population...
With no accurate knowledge about the disease and the way it was spread, what could be done...
The plutocracy of Carthage was only too willing to pick a quarrel with Rome. The Semitic colony...
When nobles and wealthy members of communities reigned supreme. Introduction Oligarchy is a form of government in...
Mary Edwards Walker defied convention in just about everything she did. Mary Edwards Walker was uncompromising in...
The ‘Hippocratic’ four humours, Roman hygiene, the first hospitals, and home remedies. The Greeks combined dietetics, medicines,...
George Washington was not born a leader, but he carefully made himself into one. On June 22,...
The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or a personification of death with dancing along to the...
People felt overwhelmed as it seems as though they believed that what had happened to others elsewhere...
The first definitive outbreak of plague was the Plague of Justinian as recorded by Procopius which killed...
For decades, women’s contributions to silent movies were mostly ignored. Motion pictures began in the East in...
The Guptas were ambitious rulers and by the end of the fourth century claimed dominance over a...