When Captain John Bacon fell in 1783, he took with him the last embers of Loyalist resistance...
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James Armistead Lafayette’s life is a testament to how the ideals of the American Revolution were both...
From the furnaces of Noricum to the markets of Alexandria, the trade in weapons bound together the...
The nineteenth century was an age of paradox for the history of rocketry, a century that stood...
The Wanli Emperor’s long withdrawal from governance represents one of the most consequential failures of leadership in...
The brief life of the Articles of Confederation occupies a paradoxical place in American history, at once...
Justinian II’s reign stands as one of the most paradoxical episodes in Byzantine history, a period of...
Stone cannot conceal truth forever. Time has a way of turning monuments into mirrors, reflecting the morality...
Viewed within its historical moment, The Great Gatsby reveals how the dream of equality and opportunity had...
The early Industrial Revolution inaugurated more than an age of machines; it redefined the relationship between humanity...
The environmental consequences of the Texas oil boom reveal how technological achievement and ecological degradation advanced side...
This is actually the first book devoted to the subject of werewolves in the ancient world. By...
Archaeological material can feed into discussions of sacrifice and pre-Christian myth and religion. Introduction Most often, and...
The iconic image of a witch on a broomstick has apocryphal origins. By Dr. Michael D. BaileyProfessor...
“Damnation seize my soul.” By Eli WizevichHistory CorrespondentSmithsonian Magazine Something unthinkable happened during the summer of 1718....
Wallpaper has done more than decorate, it has been a history, technology, and culture, reflection. Wallpaper comes...
The Waldensian story remains a mirror for every age in which conviction eclipses truth. When belief becomes...
The medieval economy, often portrayed as rigid and hierarchical, in fact operated through a mosaic of temporary,...
The middle class saw itself as both the moral guardian and the practical engine of progress, defining...
Darshan is also about the multilayered ways in which we see the world around us. Background If...
Warrior-monks crusaded for Christianity, and adding to the ongoing mystery surrounding the military order is their enigmatic...
The end of witch hunts did not bring an end to the human impulses that sustained them....
By transferring moral and political legitimacy from revelation to reason, the Enlightenment recast the relationship between the...
The American Republic emerged from violence not as an accident but as its creative condition. The Revolution...
The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 did not simply close a chapter in European history;...
Whenever religion merges with nationalism, Hypatia’s shadow reappears. Her story warns that the moment belief wields the...
In the long arc of intellectual history, the autonomy of the medieval university emerges as the seed...
The Münster Rebellion stands as one of the most haunting episodes of the Reformation, not simply for...
The Victorian Agapemone Cult: From the ‘Abode of Love’ to the Fall of England’s Erotic Messiah 
The Victorian Agapemone Cult: From the ‘Abode of Love’ to the Fall of England’s Erotic Messiah
The story of the Agapemonites is not merely a curiosity of Victorian eccentricity but a revealing chapter...
To study the French Revolution, then, is to confront the fragility of all revolutions. Every movement for...