The Industrial Revolution was a key foundation of transforming cities and the urban experience.  Europeans faced issues such...
History
The counterculture of the 1960s was not perfect, yet it provided a strong alternative to the dominant...
How Army Aviator Charles Kettles earned the Medal of Honor for his heroic acts during the Vietnam...
Warren was an eloquent, persuasive polemicist who died a martyr at Bunker Hill. By Michael McQuillan “I’m...
Herculaneum had a long, rich history before its fall to the Vesuvian blast. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction...
These hunts involved all of the tribe mobilizing across vast areas of steppe to corner game into...
Native American assistance to freedom seekers crossing through the Midwest has largely been erased from Underground Railroad...
Two factors overlapped to result in the genocide of the Kikotan people. Reckoning with the past is...
Diderot produced an impressive, unfinished work over at least 15 years. Introduction Today (October 5) is 300...
The Enlightenment directly involved only the educated spheres of society. After Pietism and the Moravian movement, the...
In the ancient world, the concept of monotheism as we understand it today did not exist; all...
Before establishing mainland colonies, Spain first settled the larger Caribbean islands. Among the areas Columbus discovered during...
The Golden Horde extended from the Caucasus to Hungary to Constantinople, inspiring fear across the known the...
These peoples were among the oldest Indo-European ethnolinguistic groups, one of the most archaic Introduction Anatolians were...
Kievan Rus’, medieval Ukraine, played an important role in both Russia and Europe. Introduction Kievan Rus′ was...
They were pioneers who didn’t know there was a glass ceiling as that term had not yet...
In 1918, the Marine Corps began investigating how the integration of women would take place. By Kenna...
In the 19th century, more people were reading more publications than ever before. This explains how technological,...
Ethnographer Daisy Bates recorded many Aboriginal languages in the early 20th century, which would otherwise be lost...
Linguists are using new technology to return decades-old recordings of near-extinct languages to the communities where they...
Italian nationalists carried out a string of attentats as assassination entered the anarchists’ toolkit. By Eric Laursen...
She was a woman who refused to submit to the religious beliefs and practices of her husband...
Archaeology, epigraphy, and literature function in tandem in order to establish a more coherent account. Introduction The...
They asked voters to sort through mounds of partisan propaganda and do whatever necessary to understand the...
Bitter political partisanship marked eleven previous presidential impeachment inquiries and the 1787 debate in Philadelphia. By Harlow...
Ultimately, the Mongols would establish the largest empire the world had ever seen. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction...
The Sumerians first explored the practice of the scientific hypothesis. Introduction Mesopotamian science and technology developed during...
The selling of indulgences was first practiced in the late thirteenth century and was changed after the...
Early Christianity used the same artistic media as the surrounding Pagan culture. Introduction Early Christian art and...
Worries about game addiction since ancient times have given way to scientific understanding of the benefits of...