The religious practices of the Greeks extended beyond mainland Greece. Introduction Ancient Greek religion encompasses the collection...
History
Working children were subject to very long work hours under harsh and dangerous conditions. Introduction The children...
The working environment was harsh and laborers had to work long hours for extremely low wages. Introduction...
Elephants were thought of as fierce and frightful monsters in antiquity, very real though rarely seen until...
Roman history held that seven kings of Rome reigned from the establishment of the city in 753...
One of the leisure activities some Chicagoans could enjoy was a day at the ballpark. Originally published...
What do Pete Rose, Rob Manfred, Barry Bonds, and Ted Williams have in common? Why, Shoeless Joe...
Up until the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, gambling and baseball had a marriage of convenience. Introduction Imagine...
The Industrial Revolution was a time of major change and adaptation. Introduction There are many aspects in...
Europeans faced issues such as pollution, health, disease, poverty, and crime. Introduction The Industrial Revolution started in...
The counterculture of the 1960s was not perfect, yet it provided a strong alternative to the dominant...
How Army Aviator Charles Kettles earned the Medal of Honor for his heroic acts during the Vietnam...
Warren was an eloquent, persuasive polemicist who died a martyr at Bunker Hill. By Michael McQuillan “I’m...
Herculaneum had a long, rich history before its fall to the Vesuvian blast. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction...
These hunts involved all of the tribe mobilizing across vast areas of steppe to corner game into...
Native American assistance to freedom seekers crossing through the Midwest has largely been erased from Underground Railroad...
Two factors overlapped to result in the genocide of the Kikotan people. Reckoning with the past is...
Diderot produced an impressive, unfinished work over at least 15 years. Introduction Today (October 5) is 300...
The Enlightenment directly involved only the educated spheres of society. After Pietism and the Moravian movement, the...
In the ancient world, the concept of monotheism as we understand it today did not exist; all...
Before establishing mainland colonies, Spain first settled the larger Caribbean islands. Among the areas Columbus discovered during...
The Golden Horde extended from the Caucasus to Hungary to Constantinople, inspiring fear across the known the...
These peoples were among the oldest Indo-European ethnolinguistic groups, one of the most archaic Introduction Anatolians were...
Kievan Rus’, medieval Ukraine, played an important role in both Russia and Europe. Introduction Kievan Rus′ was...
They were pioneers who didn’t know there was a glass ceiling as that term had not yet...
In 1918, the Marine Corps began investigating how the integration of women would take place. By Kenna...
In the 19th century, more people were reading more publications than ever before. This explains how technological,...
Ethnographer Daisy Bates recorded many Aboriginal languages in the early 20th century, which would otherwise be lost...
Linguists are using new technology to return decades-old recordings of near-extinct languages to the communities where they...
Italian nationalists carried out a string of attentats as assassination entered the anarchists’ toolkit. By Eric Laursen...