American presidential races have become drawn-out, years-long affairs. It wasn’t always this way. Introduction Four hundred and...
History
There was a split between the pure ideal and base reality, between sacred and profane love. In...
Rufus is primarily known today as the teacher of Epictetus, the slave who became a famous Stoic...
Epicureanism competed with Stoicism to dominate Greek and Roman culture. By Temma Ehrenfeld ‘The pursuit of Happiness’...
In the 19th and early-20th centuries, Japan, among the major countries of Asia, escaped colonial or neo-colonial...
The Sino-Japanese War provided something very new—a modern and highly mechanized war against a foreign foe. Prints...
In the 19th century, farm loans changed from a matter between associates into an impersonal, bureaucratic exchange....
Getting rich off politics is an old tradition. When the political leader “Boss” Tweed was arrested in...
No one in history has ever, based on their adopting a sea-going profession, talked like Robert Newton’s...
Magellan’s voyage in search of the “Spice Islands” was marked by storms, sharks, and scurvy—plus multiple attempts...
Ayn Rand’s philosophy is a central tenet of today’s Republican Party and the moral code they proudly...
During the Georgian period a host of entertainments were available to those seeking relief from their everyday...
Many important Roman cities had an arena which hosted thrilling chariot races and more for public entertainment....
When artists painted more than one revolution. The Mexican Revolution of 1910, which ended the 35-year presidency...
How a 17th-century nun wrote poetry, dramas, and comedies that took on the inequities and double standards...
For decades, they’ve sustainably managed their community forest, relying on it for food, shelter and livelihoods. By...
The 1,000-year-old mound conforms to the natural topography of the site. A Serpent 1300 Feet Long The...
Texas cattle trails, cattle drives, and the people who worked them. Originally published by the Texas Alliance...
Vast amounts of black property were taken by unscrupulous individual use of legal trickery. I recently read...
The findings are some of the earliest evidence of cannabis used as a drug. People have been...
Napoleon didn’t like sitting for portraits, and yet artists and mass market prints helped cement his legendary...
During the past two decades, historians of twentieth-century Britain have delineated the landscape of a “modern sexual...
By midcentury, Victorian natural historians seemed hungry for information from formerly inaccessible regions of Africa. With a...
Darwin to understand the convergence of disparate scales of geological and human history. The event now known...
What were the links between abolition and imperialism in East Africa? Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections...
Most traditional religions in Africa have developed at the local level and are unique to a particular...
The most notable ruler of this dynasty was its last ruler, Emperor Harshavardhana (or Harsha). Introduction The...
History in South Africa from the Stone Age to the Mid-19th century This essay provides a summary...
The trade of gold in West Africa goes back to antiquity. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction West Africa...
Nebuchadnezzar II, the Chaldean king, is supposed to have had the gardens built in about 600 BC...