It was an era and a culture that was both misogynist and racist, in which Jews from...
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Goryeo (Koryo) ruled ancient Korea from 918 CE to 1392 CE. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Goryeo (Koryo)...
How two female courtiers vied for influence over Queen Anne. One of the challengers at this year’s...
King Herod had a substantial architectural heritage to his name in the Levant by the time of...
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, urban settlements in Italy generally enjoyed a greater continuity...
Communes are first recorded in the late 11th and early 12th centuries. Introduction Medieval communes in the European Middle Ages had...
Due to its agricultural nature, her cult had tremendous appeal to the average Roman citizen, more so...
Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister...
It was the single largest extension of voting rights in our nation’s history. The woman suffrage movement...
The Electoral College may not have been expressly designed only to protect African slavery, but based on...
In the 1820s, political leaders and parties rose to popularity by championing the will of the people....
The 1787 debate over how slaves would be counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative...
Analyzing the role that Progressive Era writers played in restoring the image of the small business owner....
Serfs increased their political power by acting collectively in village communities which began to hold their own...
Saint Matthew, folio 15 recto of the Coronation Gospels (Gospel Book of Charlemagne), from Aachen, Germany, c. 800-810, ink...
Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi, 1423, tempera on panel, 283 x 300 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi,...
The Lyceum had been used for philosophical debate long before Aristotle and stood long after. Introduction The Lyceum (Ancient...
Vance Packard’s ‘Hidden Persuaders’ was an exposé of the new techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s...
In the 1920s, doctors who believed labour-saving devices in the home were creating a ‘vacuum’ in housewives’...
The full range of consumer goods of the period was set out to tempt the shopper and...
The Mediterranean Sea was the economic focal point of the Roman Empire. By Michael GoodyearJ.D. CandidateUniversity of Michigan...
The wealth of Egypt was owed in large part to the unrivaled fertility of the Nile. By...
A small number of sites, especially from the Middle and New Kingdoms, provide us with extraordinary amounts...
There began a cult of Khayyám that lasted at least until the First World War. By Roman...
In early modern Sweden bathing was a part of everyday life. There were public and private hot-steam...
The word aphrodisiac only began to be used to describe such foods in the late seventeenth century....
The types of Christianity they professed had important differences that led to a lack of recognition and...
Something very important to note about Augustus and his political, societal and religious views is the significant...
The Supreme Court had barely gotten used to its new chamber when the War of 1812 commenced...
The United States Colored Troops (USCT) was a branch of the United States Army founded in 1863....