With its novel vignettes and its use of a camera obscura in the production of the plates,...
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This followed a long period of tension and violence, marked by the first Jewish uprising which ended...
The outcome was the formation of the Hasmonean Dynasty, an autonomous Jewish rule over Palestine that would...
The humiliating failure of the vaunted Maginot Line thrilled the vast majority of Germans, who adored their...
The years 1816 to 1819 saw the last wave of immigration into the United States that basically...
The history of discrimination by the United States Department of Agriculture and the class action lawsuits by...
Iconic children’s books and popular media that Gen Xers grew up with are riddled with damaging Native...
The 1830 Indian Removal Act led to the displacement of the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Cherokee...
While contemporary laser removal techniques are only around forty years old, efforts to erase or rewrite tattoos...
The tools, called “bone combs,” resemble hair combs with their grooved edges. By Amy Held Tattooing goes...
It has meant different things to different people at different times, which is part of its genius....
French artisans and craftsmen began constructing the Statue in France under Auguste Bartholdi’s direction. The Early Stages...
The Renaissance period (c. 1300-1600 CE) in European countries is renowned for path-breaking and rapid developments and...
Versailles was the location of two seismic shifts in political culture. Ten million tourists flock to Versailles...
By sanctifying the royal body, the act of anointing has often been believed to confer healing powers....
The Ottonian dynasty (German: Ottonen) was a Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (919–1024), named after three of its kings and Holy...
West Francia prospered under succeeding kings up through the rise of the Capetian Dynasty. Introduction The Kingdom...
Imagining what might have happened is natural. In reflecting on the legacy of the American Civil War,...
Adams had become widely revered in his last years. The morning of February 21, 1848, was bright...
A combined force of Germans annihilated a Roman army consisting of three legions. Introduction At the Battle of Teutoburg...
Stories passed down from the ancient world tell of self-powered machines able to move on their own....
Over the course of several centuries, the inhabitants gradually settled down and took up agriculture. Introduction The...
Scandinavia was populated by two main migrations, making its first inhabitants more genetically diverse and adapted to...
For nearly 50 years academic and popular writers ignored the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. A hundred years...
The urban region of Hamburg represents a special case in the modern religious history of German Jewry...
Buddhists performed pilgrimages and other rituals at Borobudur until the temple was abandoned as many Javanese converted...
Despite its grandeur and rich exterior ornamentation, the Javanese abandoned Prambanan within 100 years of its completion...
Pyongyang was the capital of several successive ancient Korean kingdoms. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Located on the...
She wears a white satin dress, pearls and a ruby ring and has a slight smile —...
The Glorious Revolution is considered by some to be one of the most important events in the...