Chalchiutlicue brings fertility to crops and is thought to protect women and children. Introduction Chalchiuhtlicue (also spelled...
History
Abstract Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and processes that led to change. In...
NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist studies the people who invent new tongues. Most languages develop through centuries...
Learning about history is one of the most special and cherished things a person can experience. After...
He used humor to poke holes in the nostalgic myths of the South and expose the contradictions...
Mori wanted to be a “serious writer” – which, to him, meant getting published. Introduction Eighty years...
Poems from ‘Ariel,’ Plath’s seminal poetry collection, vividly channel the painful experience of losing an unborn child....
Long before the Tsarist establishment of Odessa, an ancient Greek settlement existed at its location. Introduction Odessa...
Mariupol was an administrative seat of its county in the Azov Governorate of the Russian Empire. Introduction...
Kharkiv was founded in 1654 as Kharkiv Fortress and grew to be a center of industry and...
The Mexican-American War, to the South, was an effort to gain more territory for the establishment of...
The act had three primary objectives for the integration of former slaves into free society following the...
This legislation was asked for by President Grant and passed within one month of when he sent...
Judea came under Roman control in 63 BCE but was governed by client kings dependent on Roman...
Pharisees claimed Mosaic authority while Sadducees represented the authority of Solomonic priestly privileges and prerogatives. Pharisees Overview...
Their apocalyptic theology resulted in a worldview polarized between good and evil. Introduction The Essenes were a...
How Lord Byron’s politics, relationships, and views on others led to his reputation of 19th-century bad boy....
For all its flaws, the nation was experimenting with a bold new system of government. Nearly every...
Questions of legitimacy were first asked more than a century ago, in an election that turned on...
If Walter Isaacson’s Franklin winks at us over the centuries, Dr. Small plays hide and seek. One...
‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness’ in the U.S. while Canada wanted ‘Peace, Order, and good...
Thee National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union laid the foundations of the Populist movement. Introduction In the...
Though the Scythians had no temples, there is ample evidence of priestly function of their kurgans and...
The Scandinavians became nominally Christian, but it took considerably longer for actual Christian beliefs to establish themselves....
The ROC currently claims exclusive jurisdiction over the Eastern Orthodox Christians, irrespective of their ethnic background. Introduction...
The Rurik dynasty held its own in some parts of Rus’ for a total of twenty-one generations....
The term derives from Latin nobilis (“noble but also secondarily well-known, famous, notable”). Introduction Nobility is a social class found...
The Russian Empire functioned as an absolute monarchy on the ideological doctrine of Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality....
Scythia was a loose state or federation covering most of the steppe, that originated as early as...
The Scythians played an important part in the Silk Road, a vast trade network connecting Greece, Persia,...