Used by the indigenous peoples of the Americas for millennia, it was only in the last decade...
History
Thousands of women volunteered as nurses during the Civil War. On April 14, 1861, Fort Sumter fell—the...
Nursing may be the oldest known profession, as some nurses were paid for their services from the...
Founded in 1865, St. Thomas, Nevada, was initially settled by Mormons drawn by Muddy Creek, a tributary...
The journalist’s witty Paris Letters for the New Yorker helped establish Americans’ feelings of superiority over Europe....
Without a doubt, the most influential concept in German university history is that of the “unity of...
Exploring how British Library maps chart the evolution of man’s understanding of the earth and cosmos. Introduction...
Capturing forts was necessary as enemy capitals were usually fortified and no invader could proclaim victory without...
The ancient Indian naval ships protected trade and carried troops to war zones. Introduction The navy in...
The art of Florida’s Highwaymen finds a new audience. It was an era when most African Americans...
When the Supreme Court exempted suburbs in the North from the kind of desegregation orders imposed in...
The Civilian Conservation Corps, Racial Segregation, and the Building of the Angeles National Forest 
The Civilian Conservation Corps, Racial Segregation, and the Building of the Angeles National Forest
Obscured in the Angeles’ history is the role that all-African-American CCC camps played in the development of...
In the South, segregation reproduced the racial inequality found under slavery. By Angelina Grigoryeva and Martin Ruef...
In the lawless post-Civil War Ozarks, the vigilante Bald Knobbers took government’s place. When I was seven...
Were the Copperheads traitors or merely exercising the right to criticize the government? To what extent did...
England became one of the greatest producers of new Catholic relics during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....
An ancient Roman fable imagines a cinaedus, well-known for his brazen effeminacy, fighting heroically. Introduction On August...
Two defining technologies of nineteenth-century America—railroads and photography—developed largely in parallel and brought about drastic changes in...
Exploring Britain’s railways from 1812 to 2007. 1812: The First Effective Locomotive-Powered Railway The coal-carrying Middleton Railway,...
Copernicus caused a revolution in contemporary knowledge by stating that science, not religion, explains how the universe...
Many machinists even created their own variations of the difference engine after Babbage’s death. Introduction The 2008...
Telecommunication would prove to be a powerful agent of change. Rivers flood, some more regularly than others....
Exploring the importance of his first dramatic work and how in it can be seen the themes...
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a growth in the inland exploration of Latin America. Introduction The...
From as early as the pre-Columbian era, there existed networks of exchange among the early civilizations of...
Exploring relationships between the Great Migration and the civil rights struggle in northern cities and, especially, Chicago...
Monopoly’s roots begin with a woman—a progressive named Elizabeth Magie. For generations, the story of Monopoly’s Depression-era...
It was one of the most important Southern cities in the war and the only major Virginian...
The British chancellor and exchequer and his soldier sibling pushed the interests of the empire at the...
Sir Francis Bacon developed a method for philosophers to use in weighing the truthfulness of knowledge. How...