The designation Visigothi seems to have appealed to the Visigoths themselves, and in time they came to apply...
Marches, demonstrations, civic unrest, attacks by law enforcement and the military on protesting civilians – in 1932....
Doomed to failure, this early colonial project lacked adequate planning and logistical support. Introduction The Roanoke Colony...
Perhaps those fortune-telling games have been circulating for much longer than we think! How can you predict...
Heavenly bodies and human fate have long been perceived as intertwined. ‘The stars (…) disclose for men...
Giving police military gear doesn’t reduce crime or keep officers safer – but it does hurt citizens’...
Larger brains lead to a broader social network. Human society rewards individuals who can handle complex social...
Middlemen often photographed their wares after receiving them from the tombaroli (grave-robbers). Introduction Over 20,000 precious art...
Elements of racist ideology have long been present in and justified by white Christianity in the United...
Nationalism (or “100% Americanism”), Protestant Christianity, and white supremacy became inextricably linked. Randall J. Stephens responds to...
The ruling allows vital public education funding to be siphoned away to private religious schools. By Andrew...
The idea of organized satanic witchcraft was invented in Europe by church authorities, who at first were...
Some bestiary descriptions explained a creature’s Christian significance while others focused on physical characteristics. Introduction The bestiary...
Their mission was not only to convert people but especially kings and rulers, thereby making the people...
The Edict of Milan made the Roman Empire officially neutral with regard to religious worship – and...
Women were key to the Democratic Party’s transformation in the 1920s and 1930s away from its socially...
The Republican Party had established itself as the party of reform in the 19th century, not the...
The meaning of the Emancipation Proclamation, for those at the time and for us today. As he...
Robert Smalls commandeered a Confederate ship to escape from slavery in South Carolina. By Meredith Good Two...
As the South Carolina city prepared to break from the Union, its people swung between nostalgia and...
By the end of the century, Congress had authorized a national archive of maps. Introduction In the...
This was the first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America...
Women spies of the American Revolution. Introduction Throughout the Revolutionary War, there are stories of heroism; those...
Two wives of the American Revolution – one a patriot, one a spy. By Victoria Cooney Lucy...
Examining some myths about women during the Revolutionary War and trying to find the truth. We all...
An 18th-century guide taught Americans how to eat simply but sumptuously. By Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald...
They may not have been hosting a cookout, but they did know how to imbibe and celebrate....
The planet that we live on is so vast and wonderful that sometimes, we tend to forget...
This informative article provides smart prompts about how to acquire student entrepreneur grants to initiate your own...
Poe’s story follows many traditions of Gothic fiction and is often analyzed as an allegory about the...