Every third European is a speaker of a Slavic language. By area, nearly half of Europe speaks...
History
By one interpretation of the historiography criterion, Southeastern Europe enters protohistory only with Homer. At any rate,...
A new scene was taking root, composed of bands that combined punk’s politics and attitude with the...
Besides its striking visual characteristics, we might also consider steampunk a novel and popular way of “doing”...
The concept of absolutism – the divine right to rule – dominated the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
In the 19th century, the Grange was an agricultural brotherhood that sought to foster mutual self-reliance and...
A system inherited from colonial Spain kept Americans in servitude even after the Civil War. Imagine a...
A brief account of the cultivation of the coffee plant in the Old World and its introduction...
The earliest substantiated evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree is from the...
The Maya Civilisation can be traced as far back as 2000 BCE. Introduction Geology is not just...
Between 250 and 900 CE, writing, religion, and art flourished. In certain respects, this era was the...
In the end, the Know Nothings were a partisan flash in the pan, but they made nativism...
His name is associated with the Reign of Terror which claimed thousands of lives of “enemies of...
During the fifteenth century, and notably in Italy, the art of translating was profoundly changed by Humanists...
Lawyers spoke their own language, even in the Middle Ages. When John of Salisbury (ca. 1115-1180) decried...
The ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan had the most aberrant design of any city in ancient Mesoamerica....
Mesoamerican architecture is the set of architectural traditions produced by pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica. Introduction...
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?” Introduction In the...
Exploring the various legends surrounding the world’s most famous ship. By Dr. Richard HowellsProfessor of Cultural SociologyKing’s...
How to get away with smuggling in the Early Modern world? Be someone else! By Alexis Harasemovitch-TruaxPhD...
Analyzing the existence of Megalithic traits as a living tradition among the Kurumba tribe of Attappadi. Abstract...
By 1914, paleoanthropology recognized five species of human ancestors, two sub-species, and the tangible evidence of humanity’s...
Coming out was one of the core values of the gay liberation movement in the early 1970s,...
Lynes was a highly sought-after commercial and fashion photographer in the 1930s and 1940s. But he had...
There were many expeditions in search of a Northwest Passage during the 1700s. They include the voyages...
The silver industry influenced life in the colonial Americas and the Atlantic world on social, political, and...
Herod created architecture that implemented Roman technology, designs, and styles, while co-mingling them with his existing Hellenistic...
A philosopher, writer, orator and statesman, Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD) was Rome’s leading intellectual during...
The Arctic became a place beyond empirical grasp: the real/fantasy land of orality about which those living...
Acoustical science fundamentally transformed the ways that Victorians conceptualized the relations between aesthetics and the body. This...