In the nineteenth century, domesticity and maternity became the primary cultural expectation for French women. In the...
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An overview of the political, religious, and cultural response to the restoration of the Roman Catholic hierarchy...
Roman honor and shame became Christian virtue and shame. The Christian reinterpretation of the classical Roman dichotomy...
The future of Yazidism is unclear, but it will certainly never be the same again. Abstract The...
There is no culture recorded in human history which has not practiced some form of religion. Introduction...
Historical research is important not simply for its own sake, but for what we can learn from...
For anything to exist, it must serve as a missing connection to reality. By Dr. Bassey Samuel...
Though the fall of the Berlin Wall did not bring along the utopia many had hoped for,...
The views of the Vice President rarely matter too much, unless something happens to the President. In...
The European Union enters 2019 with a mass of unresolved problems, in addition to being torn apart...
These were mythologized as a bastion of Judaism – of the so-called “yidishkeyt” – in the context...
There were complaints that the lack of using a permanent family name caused a lot of “disorder” Introduction...
From the mid-18th century, Africans and people of African descent – many of them former slaves –...
The Yuanmingyuan was a paradise on earth for the Qing emperors. Introduction The Garden of Perfect Brightness—Yuanmingyuan...
Some wanted to explore and plunder, but others simply wanted to discover more fertile lands to farm...
Although the Vikings may have begun as little more than pirates in Britain, they would eventually arrive...
Did you know that a man named “John Gooseflesh” changed the world? Did you know that a...
Examining the emergence and decline of the pharaoh in ancient Egypt from the Old to New Kingdoms....
In the early days of Egyptology, Menes was accepted as the first historical king based upon the...
We’re still far from being able to devise a truly world-centered historical framework for the nineteenth century....
The synthesis of Greek and Egyptian customs, beliefs and practices created by Ptolemy I and his heirs...
Immediately after the death of Alexander the Great, the power play began. By Robin WaterfieldBritish Classics Scholar...
The extensive response in the British press was unprecedented. Abstract Although Europe had celebrated the end of...
The Napoleonic wars illustrate how warfare, seemingly the most conventional object of history, defies history’s most conventional...
The joint U.S.-Canada project turned the iconic waterfall into infrastructure designed to create both power and beauty....
Henry’s succession to the throne marked, in many ways, a return to peace. 836 years ago, on...
In the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, reading was a privileged skill available to the upper-class elite. This...
His rule resulted in revolt and eventually in territorial loss, and in the loss of political prestige,...
Brazil’s history can be divided into five economic periods, each characterized by a dominant export product. By...
Throughout its history, Nicaragua has suffered from political instability, civil war, poverty, foreign intervention, and natural disasters....