The first of a century of many inept emperors following the death of Marcus Aurelius. Introduction Commodus...
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Marcus’ goal was to become the best – most virtuous – person that he was able to...
Historically, pleasure was not the only, or even the main, expectation from sex for women in a...
An interview with Mohsen Sazegara, exiled dissident, journalist and writer from Iran. When I sat down with...
Among the first three manuscripts written in Persian, Akhawayni’s Hidayat al-muta’allemin fi al-tibb was the most significant work compiled...
The earliest remains of Persepolis date back to 515 BCE. It exemplifies the Achaemenid style of architecture....
Darius was the ruler of a multicultural empire, and he was willing to accept the gods of...
Analyzing how three maps of Barbados promoted a flattering image of British colonialism in the Caribbean. To...
Throughout history, individuals, states, or political factions have gained sovereignty over regions through the use of war....
As western civilization emerged, power struggles and technological advancements gave birth to new empires and saw their...
Pisistratus’s story as a tyrant of Athens offered a powerful script for interpreting Robespierre’s actions, and a...
Not all religions follow the same practices but there are some similarities between most, if not all,...
Reality had always been viewed as a single unfolding history. Stapp postulated another physical, not spiritual, world. I knew Orrill Stapp before I...
The only possible response can be that it is no one’s and everyone’s. The death of Martin...
Native Americans influenced the formation of Abraham Lincoln’s racial ideology. December of 1862 was a grisly month...
Research suggests people intuitively draw a distinction between what is known and what is believed. Recognizing the...
Until their great debates, Abraham Lincoln lived for a quarter-century in the shadow of Stephen A. Douglas....
Life-size effigies of the saint are distributed throughout the highlands. By Dr. Kathleen McCampbellArchaeologist He sits among...
Herodion, the palace fortress and highest peak in the Judaean Desert, is the only site that is...
In a single stroke, Davis and his legacy were all but buried. What was it like to...
Dealing in false coinage was said to undermine the king’s prerogative to issue currency, illegally reproduce his...
The British poster artist Cyril Kenneth Bird, known as Fougasse, once referred to posters as “anything stuck...
Germany can look back on a long history of migration. By Dr. Vera Hanewinkel and Dr. Jochen...
A lot of what is known about pirates is not true, and a lot of what is...
How James Harris changed the NFL’s marquee role. An hour or two before kickoff on the night...
Without distractions, he produced some of his best writing there in exile. By Ted Lawrence, J.D. Some writers are...
Jame’s Laughlin’s life amalgamated many seemingly dissonant strains in twentieth-century America into a coherent whole. The American...
Prior to 1951, there was no systematic way for the U.S. government to communicate with citizens during...
The origins of the sixteenth President’s facial hair are more tangled than you might think. It’s a...
Hominin systematics, encompassing both taxonomy and phylogeny, has significant implications for how the evolution of species and...