How knowledge, belief, sex, and power were viewed in the medieval world. Knowledge The way medieval eyes...
A rough genealogy of the way in which the central narrative of Buddhism ended up in a...
States with more restrictions on reproductive health care have higher maternal and infant mortality rates. Abortion access...
This is probably the best expression of of Pizan’s views of contemporary medieval women. The Woman Question...
Women in ancient Egypt were the equals of men in every area except occupations. Introduction One of...
Advocates of a more socially conscious economic system must take steps to ensure that their vision takes...
During the war, the top “marginal rate” was 94%, but 94% of what? Recent history shows tax...
Marketers decided to focus on the ‘purity’ of factory food processing – a successful strategy that other...
The economic decline was marked by a severe drop in population. By Dr. Murray N. RothbardHistorian and...
Wealthy landowners enclosed (privatized) the commons for their own profits, impoverishing many villagers. By Jay Walljasper Medieval...
By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Regional, inter-regional and international trade was a common feature of the Roman world....
Even citizens found their city confusing. A city – a free city – was where a man...
Chamberlain and Wilson had aimed to prevent war entirely; instead they made it almost inevitable. In 1941,...
With the stroke of a pen 75 years ago, two men changed the world and sealed the...
Establishing a nation in which the people were sovereign and the aristocracy had no place. The North...
The excised passage was not then without effect and ought not now to be without effect. In...
Journalists face daily oppression from an authoritarian regime. Turkey is notorious as a leading jailer of journalists...
They were part of the Armenian millet until the Tanzimat reforms in the nineteenth century equalized all...
The Byzantine Empire had an important cultural legacy, both on the Orthodox Church and on the revival...
The war ended in a stalemate with the border between North and South Korea near where it...
The young people of Africa’s urbanized populations are ushering in a modernization process founded on services and...
A brief introduction to famous African rulers and their impact on medieval and Renaissance European culture. By Dr....
They formed the king’s personal bodyguard and were also considered the shock troops of the infantry in...
From sun dials to atomic clocks, we still don’t have a perfect time measuring device. The time...
The blood moon myths are many and varied, but, at the end of the day, it’s just...
The moon might harbor bits of the Earth that blasted off our planet billions of years ago...
The Emancipation Proclamation Inspired New Year’s celebrations that endure to this day. For young Ed McCree, enslaved...
American colonists actually celebrated New Year on March 25th! By Eryn Dion While modern day New Year’s...
His decree ordered that Russia observe calendar years from the birth of Christ. Peter the Great’s reign...
Medieval church courts in York shows that the same January divorce pattern prevailed as far back as...