Empires acquire artifacts from source nations by various means, and the newly acquired art takes on some...
The Chinese civil service system later served as a model for the civil-service systems elsewhere. Introduction The...
Among the earliest inventions were the abacus, the “shadow clock,” and the first flying machines. Introduction The...
English writers found federalism attractive because it seemed a solution to the problems posed by Europe’s emerging...
Federalism was a political solution for the problems with the Articles of Confederation giving little authority to...
The Bibliophile’s vision of the bookless future is in some ways prescient. This article, Octave Uzanne’s “The...
Locke’s method built on a long tradition of commonplace note taking, most famously John Milton’s from the...
People have used drum telegraphy to communicate with each other from far away for centuries. Developed and...
As a method of communication, it is likely as old as the ancient Persians, from whom the...
How, if at all, did religious communities change their inherited traditions in the midst of new surroundings?...
Three hundred years is a long time to suffer a bad reputation. The sheer longevity of the...
Little is known about their lifestyle due to the numerous conflicts and combinations of cultures that occurred...
It was built in five constructional stages spanning a period from around 3000 to 1500 BCE. Stonehenge...
The early depictions of hell were meant to use fear as a moral guide to help others....
In 63 B.C.E. Pompey was invited to settle a dispute between two Maccabeans. Thus came the Romans....
A place for the performance of rituals of congregation. Abstract The discovery of the early bronze age...
Over the years, people have continued to enjoy getting information, entertainment, and relaxation all from the same...
The close of the 19th century also witnessed dramatic discoveries in the new science of bacteriology that...
Public outcry against these ghoulish deeds was great. This article, The History of Burke and Hare and...
A comparison of the concept of the “general will” in revolutionary France. Introduction The concept of the...
Reexamining Charlemagne through evidence from his own time, as a ruler of a recognizably European empire and...
Other Mesoamerican cultures also engaged in human sacrifice and built tzompantlis, but the Mexica brought it to...
Examining nine different civilizations that practiced ritual human sacrifice. Originally published by ESRI, republished with embed permission...
Energy in a post-pandemic world. Energy analysts have long assumed that, given time, growing international concern over...
The myth of the Northwest Passage is part of the northern romance of the conflict between men...
This was intended to be “read” by intarsia workers (artists who inlay sections of wood to decorate...
The costumes were meant to combat the contagious miasma. This article, Plague Doctor Costumes, was originally published...
This article, London’s Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics during the Great Plague (1665), was...
In the 1950s, ‘coming out’ meant acknowledging sexual orientation. Today, the term is used by a broad...
In primary texts, figures are addressed by medieval authors using both male and female pronouns interchangeably and...