There is reason to pay attention to them at this time of year. They are a prime...
Each season in medieval europe had its own special Christian celebration, often based on older pagan traditions....
Similarities of its features suggest a strong influence on the Christian celebration of Christmas. By Mark CartwrightHistorian...
Monetary, fiscal, military, political, and economic issues are all very much intertwined. Two centuries ago, in 1776,...
An analysis of the Aeneid and the extent to which it can be taken as a commentary...
Ross cast the vote that saved President Andrew Johnson. By David O. Stewart, J.D. The current impeachment...
Introduction Edmund Gibson Ross (December 7, 1826 – May 8, 1907) was a politician who represented Kansas after...
A new video series which is intended to “combat leftist ideas” and offer a false narrative of...
By Mark CartwrightHistorian Yaxchilan, located on the banks of the Usumacinta River in the Yucatán peninsula of...
Tikal built its wealth by exploiting its natural resources and geographical location to become a Maya superpower....
The Silk Road was a vast trade network connecting Eurasia and North Africa via land and sea...
Such states and fiefdoms would again emerge during later dynasties as a political expedient when required. Introduction...
The perpetually contemporary Williams, as Ellington famously described her, mastered the language of swing. By Natalie Weiner...
Bessie’s voice was elemental, a force set free from deep inside the world. It was a hot...
By the outbreak of the Civil War, the seeds for the later mass incarceration of black people...
The South was allowed to go back to their old ways of bigotry. The American Story is...
Andrew Johnson lacked Lincoln’s political skills and instead exhibited a stubbornness and confrontational approach. Introduction President Johnson...
Fictional accounts of white Southerners make it seem it was fun to be a slave on a...
The spread of Christianity in the Early Middle Ages (from the fifth to tenth centuries) marked the...
Slavery, for many civilizations throughout human history, has been an inescapable fact. By Harrison Kavanagh Like all...
Confirmation bias, cognitive dissonance, and fictional Constitutional rewrites. My upbringing was strict fundamentalist Christian, marked by a...
Fundamentalist evangelicals in the 1920s to 1960s increasingly withdrew into their own subculture. Introduction Fundamentalist Christianity represents...
Changes caused Protestants to lose the privileges they had enjoyed in public life, and they wanted government...
Although Article VI of the U.S. Constitution prohibits any religious test “as a Qualification to any Office...
AG William Barr unleashed a stinging attack on one of the Religious Right’s favorite targets: secularism. Attorney...
The ambition to reform American culture shows the extent to which evangelical political thinking has changed. The...
The Puritan minister originated a principle that remains contentious to this day—separation of church and state. Even...
They wanted to bring about the reform of Protestantism throughout the English Empire. “A City upon a...
Evangelicals who were taught as children to from sex until marriage are coming out and revealing the...
The clergy of ancient Egypt did not preach, interpret scripture, proselytize, or conduct weekly services. Introduction The...