A literary alternative to the murderous, supersessionist versions of the story that animates the site. Given the...
History
She used her skills as a teacher to become not only the first American female physician but...
The Migration Period is typically regarded as beginning with the invasion of Europe by the Huns from...
The empire of course had many great strengths, but one of the most important keys to its...
Is it time to follow a new approach not constrained by historic precedent? John Bolton, President Donald...
Artists suddenly became soldiers on the front to win the hearts and minds of the American public....
President Wilson’s support for a new international system offered the first practical opportunity to create a universal...
Spanish Presidios and Mexican Leather-Jackets in 1772. Spaniards responded to the unfolding story of the American Revolution...
Eventually, the entire Western Hemisphere would come under the domination of European nations, leading to profound changes...
Viking warfare connected with the expansion of Scandinavian influence along the North Atlantic and into the Mediterranean....
After their victory in the first Opium War, the British acquired Hong Kong under the 1842 Treaty...
The new vistas of China available after the development of the East India trade attracted many Chinese...
Chimera from Arezzo, c. 400 B.C.E., bronze, 129 cm in length, (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence) By Dr. Jeffrey...
Since the early days of monasticism, the presence of nuns led to restrictions that limited contact between...
Donatello, St. Mark, 1411-13, marble, 93″ (236 cm) (Orsanmichele, Florence). Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris...
Double page opening: Provinces Bringing Tribute (f.23v.) and Ruler Portrait of Otto III (f.24) Gospels of Otto III,...
After looting its treasures, Alexander burned the great palace and surrounding city to the ground, as Xerxes...
The author would have constructed the narrative to place the events in the past in order to...
It was the biggest constitutional crisis since Henry VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon. By Anna Pasternak It...
From its earliest years, the Senate has jealously guarded its power to review and approve or reject...
Although a saint, a bishop, and an important figure in a turbulent age, Sidonius is remembered particularly...
The earliest cave paintings here are about 30,000 years old. Introduction The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site...
Examining the associations known as ‘collegia’ mentioned in the letters (10.33-34) from the Roman pro-consul Pliny to...
Discovered in 1925, the skull was the first fossilized archaic human found in Western Asia. Introduction Mugharet...
Athens’s heavy-handed control of the Delian League ultimately prompted the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Introduction The Delian...
Trump has learned very well from prior anti-Communism crusaders, and it requires vigilance and activism to cope...
Each one immediately followed wars – World War I and II. Introduction A “Red Scare” is promotion...
In 1884 Edwin Abbott Abbott published Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever book that...
Mathematicians have known how to solve something called an S-unit equation for several years. However, the process...
Lycians are associated with a group known as the Sea Peoples in Hittite and Egyptian texts. Introduction...