One of the most common types of graffiti found lining the streets of Pompeii were political graffiti....
History
The Amarna letters reveal a treasury of knowledge concerning the political relations and social customs of their...
Examining how the popular media documented the people and activities of the homefront and the battlefront. Originally...
People drank for many different reasons and these reasons ranged across social class, gender, and region. Introduction...
Exploring tea time in the portrait of John, Fourteenth Lord Willoughby de Broke, and his Family. Because...
In archaic and classical Greece thrones were reserved for the gods and by extension, their priests and...
Examining the Macedonian king in combat. In his account of the preparations for the battle at Granicus,...
How the work of African American clubwomen deepens our understanding of the Great Migration and the Progressive...
The first historical account of Edwardian London’s elite canine veterinarians in the early 20th century. Introduction Previous...
Getty Museum curators share some of their favorite dogs in the collection. Introduction When we first asked...
A new theology that came to dominate British religion after the Reformation altering the relationship between the...
Religious ideas and cultural values exerted a powerful influence upon eugenics in an attempt to make it...
We need to take people on their own terms, not on ours. And Roebling’s terms were the...
An overview of the major world systems, and where and how they have been and are implemented....
The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code....
During the contentious deliberations in 1787, an excursion into the country provided a welcome diversion for a...
The migrants comprised war bands or tribes of 10,000 to 20,000 people during and after the decline...
The loss caused a great shock in Rome and effectively stopped Roman expansion beyond the Rhine River....
The legendary founder of music in Chinese mythology was Ling Lun, who made bamboo pipes tuned to...
Efforts were made with the discovery of instruments to list the stars, to measure distances and angles...
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...