Woodrow Wilson may have been one of our hardest-working chief executives and by the fall of 1919,...
History
Politics can sometimes turn the best of friends into the worst of enemies. Such was the fate...
An unlikely combination of artists, medieval historians, philosophers and scientists have converged to create an exhibition of...
A new study posits the woman was licking brushes covered with pigments of lapis lazuli, a rare...
Hernán Cortés owed his conquest of the Aztecs to his expedition’s unknown, unseen secret weapon: the smallpox...
Miss Betty Cooper may not be “well known” to modern historians, but the ad claims that she...
Looking beyond an initial impression to dissect what is happening beyond the surface in particular historical contexts....
The Kingdom of Jerusalem did, in fact, make its own important cultural contributions. On 15 July 1099,...
Modern Taoists in China (and elsewhere) worship many gods at private altars and in public ceremonies which...
The relationship between church and state is the institutional form of the relationship between the religious and political spheres. This...
The Turks absorbed, adapted and modified the cultures of conquered lands and their peoples. Introduction Ottoman culture evolved...
The inter-marriage of Muslim families and the mingling with Christianity provides us with an interesting back story...
The aging Soviet leadership of the 1980s was ill-equipped to deal with ongoing economic stagnation and worsening...
Sara’s images defined the Soviet Union at its ‘base line’. What was life like in early Soviet...
When the Spanish ambassador to Elizabeth I’s court was implicated in a plot to kill her, he...
Humans have crafted garments for more than 40,000 years—and prehistoric tools suggest that warmth wasn’t their only...
Today’s status of the profession and those who practice it results from an evolution over thousands of...
The London Clinic / Photo by Ben Gilbert, Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons What have snakes, unicorns and...
The “age of extremes” from 1914 to 1945 created renewed demand for cheap supplies of protein. One...
A medieval kitchen / British Library, Public Domain If your latest diet resolution is already under strain,...
Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons It’s 15 years since England’s last public post-mortem, but what was the history...
Sometimes, stories of heroism reveal themselves in the most unusual and humble ways. By Sandra Vea The...
After the attack by the Japanese Empire on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, American attitudes towards...
Is the human body innately terrestrial, unsuited to a prolonged time away from its earthly element? On...
There are lessons from ancient history that could prove instructive. A caravan of Goths – the Thervingi...
The myth of Theseus’ sacred journey’ continued to be re-enacted in an Athenian state festival held in...
Clay model of a first century Roman War Ship / Museum of Sparta The story of modeled ships...
Henry David Thoreau went in for society, but on his own terms. A century and a half...
Potters began to enrich vases in the Geometric Period with depictions of people, animals, ships, and more....
Navigation of the sea is shown to have commenced in the order of one million years ago....