Napoleon didn’t like sitting for portraits, and yet artists and mass market prints helped cement his legendary...
History
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...
Used by the indigenous peoples of the Americas for millennia, it was only in the last decade...
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...