Following the conquests of Alexander the Great, Egypt was taken over by a Greco-Macedonian dynasty based in...
Classical Greece saw a flourishing of philosophers, especially in Athens during its Golden Age. Philosophy Socrates Socrates,...
“We’re helping other nations with billions in aid, and the Navajo are still waiting on aid.” Remi...
Accounts of Powhatan authority hint that a complex set of dynamics shaped the Powhatan political realm. Introduction...
The most famous event of Pocahontas’ life, her rescue of Captain John Smith, did not happen the...
Conspiracy theories about COVID-19 tend to pull from the same playbook. Here it is. The conspiracy theory...
A new theology that came to dominate British religion after the Reformation altering the relationship between the...
The dying and dead body was an important locus in both religious and secular discourses of power....
Even everyday scents have the power to take us back in time, awakening half-forgotten memories. By Gianluca...
People through the ages relied on earlier forms of soap more for cleaning objects than for personal...
Ever since it was first discovered, coffee was played a big role in our lives. Over time,...
Religious ideas and cultural values exerted a powerful influence upon eugenics in an attempt to make it...
We need to take people on their own terms, not on ours. And Roebling’s terms were the...
It was the first step of what would turn out to be a rocky and far from...
The 40,000 protestors were dispersed by the threat of armed force and false promises of pardons and...
An overview of the major world systems, and where and how they have been and are implemented....
The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code....
Politics and war brought Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever closer. Introduction On May 26, 1914,...
During the contentious deliberations in 1787, an excursion into the country provided a welcome diversion for a...
The migrants comprised war bands or tribes of 10,000 to 20,000 people during and after the decline...
The loss caused a great shock in Rome and effectively stopped Roman expansion beyond the Rhine River....
The legendary founder of music in Chinese mythology was Ling Lun, who made bamboo pipes tuned to...
China continues to be active in astronomy, with many observatories and its own space program. Introduction Astronomy...
Translation of genealogy documents remains one of the most challenging tasks since it involves research and detailed...
Unless you have succeeded through palaeography for beginners and know where to start, translating the old records...
Selling alcohol in late Victorian Britain required a degree of cunning, ingenuity, and a leap of imagination....
Ideas about the drunkard fueled political and moral debates about the extent of liquor controls. Introduction This...
By 1851, Brown was internationally well known. This article, The Narrative of Henry Box Brown (1849), was...
He killed his “owner” and fled slavery before finally returning to England in 1604 and embarking to...
The Romans resolved civil disputes by recourse to litigation based on law. Abstract This is a broad...