As the 20th century dawned, people basked in the marvelous and unearthly glow of the new electric...
History
From hydroelectric dams to pylons, the 20th-century architecture of electricity inspired a new kind of awe. Printed...
Students entered school before the age of ten and graduated around twelve years later having mastered cuneiform....
Schools were privately operated by teachers and therefore dependent on tuition fees. Introduction Roman education had its first...
Assessing a group of early Carolingian grammar miscellanies using methods of digital network analysis. Early medieval masters...
Old Seattle’s sonorous and evocative phrases still reverberate today. Did Millard Fillmore install the first bathtub in...
The Met has been slow to ask tribes for information about the items. Introduction Stepping into the Metropolitan...
Geronimo led the Apache people on breakouts from the reservations to return to their traditional nomadic lifestyle....
As the code talker program grew, so did the development of the code. By Adam Jevec As...
Hominin brain size substantially sets them apart from closely related species. Introduction The evolution of human intelligence is closely...
What gave the modern human the competitive advantage over our ancient cousin? Introduction While the jury is...
In the annals of history, one civilization stands out for its remarkable understanding of the cosmos—the mighty...
The St Leger is the oldest of the five British Classics in horse racing, as it was...
Royal Ascot is one of the most renowned horse racing meetings in the world. It takes place...
By imitating the suffering of Jesus, martyrs were said to become more Christ-like. The early Christian Church...
Poetry may well have been Maffeo Barberini’s first and most important inclination. Introduction In the early years...
Why we all have some irrational beliefs and the reason they give us comfort. Introduction Growing up...
The story of the Louisiana Purchase is more than just a quick deal among the top French...
How the speech’s meaning was recast from democracy to equality. Introduction During the Cold War agents of...
Democracy’s meaning and significance altered in a relatively gradual and piecemeal fashion. Introduction Democracy is like a...
Examining the city’s rich history and recovery after being devastated in the past. Introduction In the late...
A report to the US president sounded an alarm — humankind was ‘conducting a vast geophysical experiment’....
The 1927 disaster exposed a country divided by stereotypes, united by modernity. On May 1, 1927, The New...
The first blow in the struggle had been struck a century earlier. Introduction Revolutions always take the...
The Bolsheviks wanted a centralized “socialist” state over which they could rule. Introduction On 17 March 1917,...
The party leadership felt too embattled on too many fronts to risk a split at the top....
A reconstruction of separate, conservative, universal elements of the ancient world view is feasible. Abstract Numerous burials...
Information gathering towards members of minority groups by bureaucratic organizations has a startling history. The recent rise...
A medieval past and an imagined future can still find ways to ‘touch’. Abstract Sometime after 1188,...
The political movement responded in many ways to such provocations. Introduction Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise was...