Examining medieval Viking amulets believed to have the power to fight and cure illness. It is a...
History
The medieval Church was wealthy and land-hungry. Although my argument begins chronologically in the fourth century, I...
Throughout much of Gall’s early life, he had been controversial because of his strong streak of independence....
The German fascination with Native Americans has been a tradition of several centuries. Abstract In his contribution,...
Having a key to unlock encoded messages is the vital component of any secure communication. The Navajo...
Slave trading in Europe from Late Antiquity to the twelfth century. Introduction The image of the early...
His push to allow human chattel in Nebraska lit a match to the Civil War. One of...
Former slave stories from mountain communities like Liberia, South Carolina, are emerging from history. Beneath the brush...
The opposition of Aboriginal peoples to expanding networks of French alliances would bring about multiple conflicts. Introduction...
The colony underwent a transformation remarkably similar to the state-building process of the great European powers. ‘Join...
The United States was undergoing a political spasm, with people becoming nearly jingoist about recent foreign immigrants....
Elders keep the past as storytellers. They transmit a culture’s identity to the next generation. We like...
There are a number of 9th-century cases of projected or actual withdrawal from the world of persons...
Old age began at 60 in the Middle Ages and a surprising number of people reached that...
There is plentiful evidence for playing along, for skepticism, and for resistance. Introduction As for the frieze...
African religions are traditionally about getting things done and discovering what ultimately caused things happen. Abstract Religion...
Tuberculosis was a leading cause of death in 19th-century Europe and America. Introduction In 1881, Frederick Akbar...
Nurses across the United States rose to the occasion. The 1918 influenza pandemic, also known as the “Spanish...
Sanatoriums were a hybrid between a hospital and a resort, built to treat tuberculosis in the early...
The ability of professors to teach and write about controversial topics without fear of retribution is nothing...
American soldiers devoured paperbacks on the front lines, spawning a new generation of readers. In January 1942,...
America was supposed to be the land of the free and Germany was the land where fascists...
Picture this: you are sitting in your living room, scrolling through social media on your phone. Suddenly,...
Script developed from simple to more complex writing systems. Introduction Script is the written expression of a language. Cuneiform,...
The language of the original Macedonians existed long before Macedonia became a powerful state. Introduction To get...
Esperanto, Klingon, “Oirish,” and others. John Wallis is all but forgotten except among historians and mathematicians, but...
The steam engine was perhaps the most important invention of the Industrial Revolution. Introduction The Rocket was a pioneering...
On Sept. 30, 1968, the first Boeing 747 rolled off the assembly line. Introduction On Sept. 30,...
The story of how the LRL came to be built has been largely relegated to footnotes in...
Gambling has been an intrinsic part of human civilization for centuries, spanning across different cultures and eras....