The inventions themselves were not an immediately profitable investment throughout many parts of Europe during the 18th...
History
Gerrymandering, the politicians’ practice of drawing district lines to favor their party and expand their power, is...
Examining the two-hundred-year-old creation of Founding Father Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts. By Harlow Giles Unger As Americans...
Their name has since come to be associated with their chief modus operandi, the act of murder...
Masada is famous for the last stand of the Zealots (and Sicarii) in the Jewish Revolt against...
Examining the controversy between Milton and Salmasius, with a comparative analysis of the two trials (1649 and...
This kind of arrangement, know as a more danico union, a Danish-style union, was common among people...
The good metal preservation probably results from the moderately alkaline pH, a very small particle size of...
Horses were not used for transport, ploughing, warfare or any other practical human activity until quite late...
The apogee of one’s training was to comprehend the laws and to be a vital member of...
For the ancient Greeks, music was viewed as quite literally a gift from the gods. By Mark...
Following the Red Scare of 1919, widespread fear of radicalism fueled anti-foreign sentiment and exclusionist demands. Introduction...
Lisbon was the capital of the Portuguese Empire, a nation of explorers, seafarers and conquerors. By Wanda...
The cataclysmic eruption of Thera split the island of Santorini into three smaller ones. By Jenna Frawley...
The three Storegga Slides of 6225-6170 BCE are considered to be amongst the largest known landslides. Introduction...
The first internet communication was underwhelming, thanks to a computer crash. But a lot has happened since...
The internet may have been “born” in October 1969, but it then percolated for years as complex,...
Andrew Jackson and his supporters felt that the 1824 Presidential election had been stolen from him, which...
The bones show interbreeding Neanderthal and Denosivan humans. This article reprinted from RFE/RL. A piece of bone...
Primitive women were more likely than their male counterparts to pack up and leave the cave. Primitive...
Both North and South looked to God for meaning, and each side believed—with equal fervor and certitude—that...
As vast as the Spanish empire was during Cervantes time, the empire found itself engaged in numerous...
The Galatian Celts retained their culture at first, continuing to observe their ancient religious festivals and rituals....
Forget football and cheese. Maybe it should be famous for its shaggy werewolves and shape-shifting schoolteachers! The...
The 1918-1919 flu claimed millions of lives worldwide. Could it also have given birth to the viral...
Examining what made these cheap, sensational, highly illustrated stories so popular with the Victorian public. By Judith...
They needed others to see them, to draw people to their grief. Reader, he died. I’ve devoted...
A Christmas Carol isn’t the only spine-chilling Christmas ghost story from the pen of Charles Dickens. Introduction...
Young Goodman Brown is one of the scariest stories in American literature. Halloween is a great time...
The Shelleys, Byron, Polidori, and the birth of a timeless tale. The story of how Frankenstein was...