People caught and died from plague long before it caused major epidemics like the Black Death in...
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The outbreak continued to sweep throughout the Mediterranean world for another 225 years, finally disappearing in 750...
The Persians settled primarily across the Iranian plateau and were established by the 1st millennium BCE. Introduction...
The sparse history has given Congress relatively few opportunities to flesh out the bare bones of the...
Valuing critical dissent and realizing more work needs doing are essential to true patriots. Patriotism has been...
The family was the nucleus of Roman society and formed the basis of every community. Introduction Rome...
There is a disproportionate audit focus on lower-income families. The IRS audits the working poor at about...
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union accelerated the push for...
Soldier photographers would capture the day-to-day routine of military life. The Great War was the first conflict...
Since the defeat of Napoleon, the 19th century had been a nearly unbroken procession of British progress...
Romans obsessed on the concept of family lineage: the family was the most important thing in one’s...
The political and public reactions to Nixon’s actions were negative and highly damaging to the president. Introduction...
When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of...
Even genetics support the idea that Neanderthals were better sprinters than runners. By Dr. Anna GoldfieldArchaeologist If...
Eight decades on, the thought of the state encouraging people to attack groups of citizens is hard...
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People in Arctic and Northwest Coast communities are uncovering the therapeutic history of tattoos. By Joshua Rapp...
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His impacts included displacing much of the pre-Conquest Anglo-Saxon nobility to reshaping the English language. William’s Early...
Examining Dadd’s most famous painting The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke. This article, Richard Dadd’s ‘Fairy Feller’ Master-Stroke, was...
Examining the similarities and differences between Leroy-Beaulieu and Prévost-Paradol’s respective colonial models. In the last years of...
The year 1830 was important for a distant event: the bombardment by French forces of the Barbary...
The impact of restricitionist policies was tempered by the fact that migrants continued to enter the U.S....
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What happened in the first few years seems almost innocent compared to what happened in the last...
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“It is our Torajan culture. It is what we do.” By Tommy Trenchard and Aurélie Marrier d’Unienville...
Some of the more famous and memorable cities of the dead. Originally published by ESRI, republished with...
One of the most popular tourist destinations in Paris—the Catacombs—was started as a solution to the intrusion...