An introduction and prologue for the first campaigns against Sicily and the relations between both Sicily and...
History
A scholar went on a Voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti and learned how an oppressive slave past has...
Well-worn routes resulted along which regular stopping points allowed pilgrims to sleep, eat, and be cared for...
The medieval Church developed and retained its power by encouraging the innate human fear of death and...
There are at least five reasons why the claim that the Bible is to be taken literally...
Interned Japanese-Americans produced newspapers to chronicle the stories and experiences of their community in a time of...
In 1911, the Dillingham Commission set a half-century precedent for screening out ‘undesirable’ newcomers. The Dillingham Commission...
Seeking out the histories and communities that existed before Route 66 and that survive still today. By...
The president and his Seneca friend Ely Parker wanted Native Americans to gain citizenship, but their efforts...
Archaeologists interested in what the skull trophies may tell about a tumultuous time of shifting political power....
Recruits in the first African-American Marine Corps trained at Montford Point, eventually ending the military’s longstanding policy...
Fake news and smoking guns made the Kansas town a symbol of frontier lawlessness. Everywhere American popular...
Before John Marshall, the Supreme Court had been a constitutional afterthought. No one in the founding generation...
Geophysicists use sound waves to build a picture of the magma and rock beneath this active volcano,...
Remembering what one of last century’s most courageous Jewish journalists taught us. By Peter Dreier In this...
Thanks to Ida Tarbell, we’re not to afraid to expose the shenanigans of the super-rich. Over the...
Charting the evolution of Old English through the 700 years during which it was written and spoken....
An entrepreneur, hunter, woodsman, scientist, and artist — John James Audubon, famous for his epic The Birds...
Geoarchaeology in action: the story of the River Tyburn from 11,500 years ago to the present. Originally...
“I believe that all Germany’s Jews are looking around the world, but can find nowhere to go.”...
Darius took personal command of his army for this encounter and led them to a resounding defeat....
It was here, against all odds, that Alexander defeated the forces of the Persian satraps of Asia...
The populist businessman known as “the barefoot Wall Street lawyer” took over his party’s convention in Philadelphia....
There is no doubt that concentration camps are in operation on U.S. soil once again. By Brett...
Exploring current struggles of memory and history within and beyond the Japanese American community. For many Americans,...
In the first year of the Civil War, Union General Benjamin Butler used the term “contraband of...
Outrage over the revolt that spurred the U.S. to deliver on a promise of the Revolution. The...
Presuming that immigration was a boon to national security, U.S. borders remained mostly open for the first...
Throughout the empire’s history, Khmer’s court was repeatedly concerned with putting down rebellions. By Rodrigo Quijada PlubinsHistorian...
Numerous excavations and a fairly large number of contemporary written documents give us a good picture of...