In 1495 an epidemic of a new and terrible disease broke out among the soldiers of Charles...
The first legal text is the Law of the Twelve Tables, dating from the mid-5th century BCE....
One of the earliest dateable events in Athenian history is the creation of the Draconian law code,...
Parents around the country are facing uncertainty and anxiety about the coronavirus or Covid-19 and that’s paired...
The poor face more obstacles in life. On the fundamental question of why some people are rich...
This massive migration to California transformed the state’s landscape and population. Introduction On January 8, 1848, James...
Looking at the effete 19th-century Eastern urbanite who traveled to the Wild West in quest of a...
Although Lincoln’s image in this and the British comic press was typically pejorative, there were moments of...
Monroe was instrumental in shaping the modern literary treatment of Abraham Lincoln. Introduction In 1919, when Harriet...
Scurvy killed more than two million sailors between the time of Columbus’s transatlantic voyage and the rise...
The Code of Hammurabi and writings from ancient Greeks mention this “lung wasting” disease and their treatments...
Buying or selling a property effectively is not as easy as it may seem, but, a popular...
Civil disobedience can be distinguished from other active forms of protest, such as rioting, because of its...
Lela Mae and the others were unwitting pawns in a segregationist game. Introduction After three days on...
Russians refer to the event as the “Caribbean Crisis.” Cubans refer to it as the “October Crisis.”...
The use of forced labor and the development of labor camps to “re-educate” anyone deemed as “bourgeois”...
The city sought to sell bonds to pay for the war effort, while bringing its citizens together...
The so-called ‘Spanish flu’ didn’t actually come from Spain. What else do people often misunderstand about this...
How has Givenchy shaped the landscape of fashion, and what is this house of fashion doing to...
Comprehensive immigration reform has eluded Congress for years, moving controversial policy decisions to presidents and courts. By...
Bolivar has become known as the chief architect of Latin America’s independence. Introduction Simón José Antonio de...
The Muisca people are considered to have had one of the most developed political systems in South...
The GOP’s slavish groveling overrides – for once – its basic instinct for fear and panic. By...
Many colonists viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of their constitutional rights. Introduction The Intolerable Acts...
While tremendously popular in Britain, George was hated by rebellious American colonists. Introduction George III (George William...
The establishment of petroleum as a tradable commodity and natural resource triggered a paradigm shift in the...
Mechanical machinery in the medieval centuries used innovative sources of energy to generate motion and mechanical power....
Let’s make us familiar with an industrial process of cutting different metals – Oxyfuel Cutting. This thermal...
There have been three great world pandemics of bubonic plague recorded, in 541, 1347, and 1894 CE....
Disease-bearing mice from lower Egypt reached the harbor town of Pelusium in 540 CE. By Thomas H....