The Spanish Civil War was seen as very much of a piece with the war against Hitler...
History
The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. Introduction...
Shrouded in secrecy, ancient mystery cults fascinate and capture the imagination. Shrouded in secrecy, ancient mystery cults...
The land remains and still presents the international community with one of its most challenging conflicts. The entire...
Canaanite religion was polytheistic, and in some cases monolatristic. Introduction Canaanite religion refers to the group of...
By Christopher Woolf In 2016, Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit Cuba since...
As the first residents of the White House, they began, under difficult conditions, a 200-year tradition of...
A conceptual sculpture made entirely of ice brought attention to global warming and redefined monuments as ephemeral...
Aristotle studied developing organisms, among other things, in ancient Greece, and his writings shaped Western philosophy and...
Looking at the Precambrian and Phanerozoic Eons. Introduction The geological history of Earth follows the major events...
In 1920 the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was declared. History The first settlements in the territory...
The Rus are first mentioned in the Annals of Saint-Bertin. Introduction Kievan Rus (862-1242 CE) was a...
After capturing Constantinople in 1204, the Fourth Crusaders established several states in former Byzantine territory. Starting from...
The discovery of lapis lazuli pigment preserved in the dental calculus of a religious woman in Germany...
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?” Introduction In the...
After about 1244 CE, the city remained a backwater of the late medieval Muslim empires and would...
Jews living in Europe were easy, early targets for Crusaders while life was comparatively tranquil in Islamic...
Cultural, economic, and knowledge transfer occurred in spite of a seemingly long series of hurdles that had...
The history of Eurasia is the collective history of a continental area with several distinct peripheral coastal...
Chinese immigration to the United States was a result of European and American imperialism in Asia on...
The first statute in the United States to codify naturalization law. Alternately known as the Nationality Act,...
James Madison proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution, but only 10 were approved. When the Constitutional Convention...
The absence of a “bill of rights” turned out to be an obstacle to the Constitution’s ratification...
In spite of the military genius of Hannibal, Carthage was destroyed as the result of three wars...
The Notre Dame Cathedral wasn’t static. The design, as with most cathedrals, kept changing to keep up...
Soil is a valuable resource that needs to be carefully managed as it is easily damaged. Introduction...
The Westerners managed to maintain a political presence in the region until 1291 CE but were constantly...
Painstaking reconstruction of fragments of text has revealed the working draft of an ancient Jewish calendar and...
Five of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of Bible were found to be forged. The...
The alliance’s name derives from the island of Delos, where the League originally housed its treasury. By...