They were part of the Armenian millet until the Tanzimat reforms in the nineteenth century equalized all...
History
The Byzantine Empire had an important cultural legacy, both on the Orthodox Church and on the revival...
The war ended in a stalemate with the border between North and South Korea near where it...
A brief introduction to famous African rulers and their impact on medieval and Renaissance European culture. By Dr....
They formed the king’s personal bodyguard and were also considered the shock troops of the infantry in...
The blood moon myths are many and varied, but, at the end of the day, it’s just...
The Emancipation Proclamation Inspired New Year’s celebrations that endure to this day. For young Ed McCree, enslaved...
American colonists actually celebrated New Year on March 25th! By Eryn Dion While modern day New Year’s...
Medieval church courts in York shows that the same January divorce pattern prevailed as far back as...
Lately, much news from the field of paleoarchaeology and anthropology has centered on Neanderthal bedfellows. By Dr....
For the source of his story, Arthur Miller looked back to the Salem witch trials of 1692....
The Enlightenment of the late 17th and the 18th century called for the re-examination of classical concepts....
The entire region came under the rule of the different groups of traders who established not states...
The Mali Empire was the largest and richest empire yet seen in West Africa to that time....
A 2,700-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Iraq depicts the demon that the ancient Assyrians thought caused epilepsy....
Examining the contributions of Frederick Jackson Turner and Alfred Thayer Mahan to the conscious creation of an...
The Delhi Sultanate, which lasted from 1206 to 1526, is known as a period of cultural intermixing....
Analyzing the importance of Lagerlöf’s oeuvre and the complex depths beneath her seemingly simple tales and public...
In terms of its staging of sovereignty, passivity distinguished the Scottish king from the English tyrant. Introduction...
Shakespeare drew on earlier depictions of Richard III and other ruthless rulers in order to create his...
The trials for ambitus were numerous in the time of the republic. Introduction In ancient Roman law,...
Political offices and institutions were designed to prevent any one man from becoming too powerful. Political Institutions...
Appreciation of the quality and the artistry of the cards grew in the late 1800s. By John...
Exploring family gift giving and other holiday traditions, old and new. Happy, happy Christmas, that can win...
Sadly, Follen’s Christmas tree has gone largely forgotten. Karl Follen came to America from Germany in 1825...
Washington’s crossing of the Delaware on Christmas night 1776 led to victory, but terrible weather led to...
The pagans paved the way for our modern festivities. Introduction The idea of hanging up decorations in...
Ginger root was first cultivated in ancient China, where it was commonly used as a medical treatment....
Today’s headlines make climate change seem like a recent discovery. But people have been piecing it together...
The most lucrative cash crops to emerge from the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were...