Almost everything we know about Dr. Lionel Wafer comes from his own pen. He enters the historical...
History
There’s a hidden history of Black activists who were also college-football players. By Dave Zirin In 1966,...
The integration of collegiate and professional sports parallels the civil rights movement, but in important ways it...
As a player and a coach, Walter Camp rewrote rugby’s rules to create a sport fit for...
Examining the dietary and physiological requirements of a modern athlete and contrasting this with those of ancient...
Punishment for cheating and bribery in the Olympics of Ancient Greece could include fines, public flogging and...
Bull-leaping fresco from the east wing of the palace of Knossos (reconstructed), c. 1400 B.C.E., fresco, 78...
Bull’s head rhyton from the palace at Knossos, c. 1550-1500 B.C.E., black steatite, jasper, and mother-of-pearl, 26...
Times had taken a sharp turn for the worse. Lexington and Concord had changed everything. When the...
Americans were fed up. The “Intolerable Acts” were more than the colonies could stand. In the summer...
Gaining an understanding of the particular social processes involved in the transitional Terminal Classic period in this...
Because Mayan hieroglyphs have yet to be encoded, the ancient Mayan emperor K’inich Janaab’ Pakal would have...
Twenty years from now, there will be no eyewitnesses left to tell their stories. Only twice in...
In this confidence trick, the criminal contacted the victim offering a large sum of money, or other...
DNA studies reveal that African elephants belong to a very successful and widespread family. For a long...
A community in so many ways defined by reinvention butting up against land prized for its preservation...
The humble sea turtle became the pinnacle of haute cuisine in the eighteenth century. From calipash to calipee, the green...
Political extremism seems to have spread to both sides of the Atlantic. By Dr. Jon X. Eguia...
This was a stunning new phenomenon that shocked most of the older leaders of the Revolutionary Era....
Ruins of ancient Thebes A team of four men could produce 3,000 mudbricks per day. By Dr. Steven Snape...
Russians have been charged with interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. If true, it’s not an...
When the German parliamentary building went up in flames, Hitler harnessed the incident to seize power. By...
High culture played an important political role in Hitler’s Germany. References to music, history, philosophy, and art...
Privilege was the beating heart of that society of orders known as Bourbon France. Privilege was the...
The politicization of the French peasantry before and during the Revolutionary period has been the topic of...
Women’s rights have been exploited in Afghanistan by different groups for political gain, sometimes being improved but...
Long before the arrival of Alexander the Great on India’s north-western border, there are references in early...
Edmund Randolph was the seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United...
Setting Precedent: The First Senate and President Washington Struggle to Define “Advice and Consent” 
Setting Precedent: The First Senate and President Washington Struggle to Define “Advice and Consent”
Our Constitution and the governmental structure that it created have weathered crises, adapted to change, and stood...
Despite their common interests, relations between the foreigners and the Chinese community grew more tense during the...