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Galatia was situated in eastern Phrygia, a region now within modern-day Turkey. By Jeffrey KingHistorian Introduction Galatia...
Touring with urban geology in mind. By David B. Williams In this age of concrete and glass,...
About 19,000 years ago in southwestern France at a site called Saint-Germain-La-Rivière, an adult woman dies and...
Examining the U.S. 82nd Infantry Division and the bloodiest battle in American history. Originally published by Learn...
Geographical importance and religious differences were both factors in the war. Introduction Overview In Britain, the Crimean...
Carrhae proved to be a complete disaster from its beginning. Introduction The Battle of Carrhae in 53 BCE was...
Sex between people of the same gender has existed for millennia. But anthropologists in sub-Saharan Africa often...
Contrasting nineteenth-century ideas (including Livingstone’s own) about fever with modern ideas about the causes and appropriate treatment...
A detailed description of Livingstone’s medical education and an overview of how his education affected his recording...
So-called heresies offered the opportunity for religious expression outside of the narrowly defined and self-serving precepts of...
What social conditions contributed to the revolution? How did the United States seek to influence events in...
The relationship between power—or politics—and culture in French history is an ambivalent one, defined as much by...
Exploring how novel Oroonoko compares to other representations of race, slavery, and colonialism in the seventeenth and...
Nasty wenches, deputy husbands, and other female survivors of Early America. “Nir nir nir,” that is,“me me...
A hundred years ago, Charles Hatfield cashed in on America’s weakness for quick fixes – even if...
In 1915, new creature comforts created by technology merged with the back-to-nature movement. On August 21, 1915,...
As the automobile industry took off, drivers discovered the romance and freedom of long-distance travel. Tens of...
Portraits, landscape paintings, drawings, and historical maps flesh out the cultural history. By Jennifer Smart A rare,...
Without doubt, this process fostered the vascularization of science in receiving countries. By Dr. Francisco Javier Dosil...
Capra’s films are known for being upbeat and sometimes cheesy, but beneath the surface are rather dark...
Culling impressions of the twentieth century from a vivid but imperfect source. In 1921, New Yorker Rosie...
We need a historical understanding of how lynching discourse continues to shape America’s enduring “dialogue on race.”...
The European Middle Ages were a time of tremendous creativity and innovation, setting the stage for what...
The publishing history of No-No Boy shows how writers shifted the narrative about internment and draft resistance....
Born in Seattle in 1920, Harry Fukuhara was fully bicultural, bilingual, and binational. When I first met...
Perhaps there’s room now for a type of history that moves smoothly between human and animal subjectivities....
Monasteries in the Early Middle Ages already had rudimentary rules and guidelines. Introduction The monastic orders of...
The Church regulated and defined an individual’s life, literally, from birth to death and was thought to...
Images of a cockatoo in Frederick II of Sicily’s falconry book reveal how trade routes around Australia’s...