The woman Thoreau once called the “youngest person in Concord”. Henry David Thoreau isn’t usually known for flattering comments...
History
The Res Gestae was a unique public relations move for the first emperor of the Roman Empire,...
Though his work was little read in the Roman world, it has influenced great thinkers such as...
Ever wondered about the origin of universities? If so, this article is going to be of interest...
Assisted by Native Americans, they moved – and fought. Introduction In 1861, as Confederate armies prepared to...
Both during slavery and after, the power structures of American society confined many black women to the...
Feudalism (hoken seido) began to be widespread in Japan from the beginning of the Kamakura Period (1185-1333...
In what ways do we associate movement—the ability to go anywhere and be anyone—with freedom? How do...
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why...
More than 200 years ago, a group of Philadelphian reformers had a utopian vision of how prisons...
Despite the restrictions women faced, her art collections demonstrate important renaissance themes. Introduction In European history classes,...
She caused a furor when she coined “the banality of evil” to describe mindless acts of Nazi...
How the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Venetian empires interacted with each other and how their competition over southeastern...
Ancient Rome and its empire had the concept of asylum at its heart. Its legacy provided inspiration...
Examining what prompted the backlash of black British people against the police. By Rowena Hillel and Vicky...
About 3000 resisters, many under the age of 25, were tried in German military courts in France...
Typical narratives about 1919’s anti-black collective violence, especially in school textbooks, often conclude abruptly. This summer marks...
Many of the most commonly used election terms have a long linguistic history, stretching from ancient Rome...
The partition of India led to more than a million deaths. A scholar argues how British royal,...
W.T. Stead’s 1885 account of the process by which wealthy Londoners procured teenagers for sex became a...
“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”...
The changes the 20th century brought to American politics continue to hold true in the 21st century....
American presidential races have become drawn-out, years-long affairs. It wasn’t always this way. Introduction Four hundred and...
There was a split between the pure ideal and base reality, between sacred and profane love. In...
Rufus is primarily known today as the teacher of Epictetus, the slave who became a famous Stoic...
Epicureanism competed with Stoicism to dominate Greek and Roman culture. By Temma Ehrenfeld ‘The pursuit of Happiness’...
In the 19th and early-20th centuries, Japan, among the major countries of Asia, escaped colonial or neo-colonial...
The Sino-Japanese War provided something very new—a modern and highly mechanized war against a foreign foe. Prints...
In the 19th century, farm loans changed from a matter between associates into an impersonal, bureaucratic exchange....
Getting rich off politics is an old tradition. When the political leader “Boss” Tweed was arrested in...