As the new millennium began, greed, ignorance, and misplaced hopes within the tech world nearly destroyed the...
The inventions themselves were not an immediately profitable investment throughout many parts of Europe during the 18th...
Gerrymandering, the politicians’ practice of drawing district lines to favor their party and expand their power, is...
Examining the two-hundred-year-old creation of Founding Father Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts. By Harlow Giles Unger As Americans...
Their name has since come to be associated with their chief modus operandi, the act of murder...
Masada is famous for the last stand of the Zealots (and Sicarii) in the Jewish Revolt against...
Exploring some of the struggles that occurred over commemorating that most difficult of anniversaries: the execution of...
Examining the controversy between Milton and Salmasius, with a comparative analysis of the two trials (1649 and...
This kind of arrangement, know as a more danico union, a Danish-style union, was common among people...
His impacts included displacing much of the pre-Conquest Anglo-Saxon nobility to reshaping the English language. William’s Early...
Private and individual donors—and recently a few states—have been stepping into a federal funding void to finance...
The good metal preservation probably results from the moderately alkaline pH, a very small particle size of...
Horses were not used for transport, ploughing, warfare or any other practical human activity until quite late...
From gift-bestowing sparrows and peach-born heroes to goblin spiders and dancing phantom cats — in a series...
Examining Dadd’s most famous painting The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke. This article, Richard Dadd’s ‘Fairy Feller’ Master-Stroke, was...
Examining the similarities and differences between Leroy-Beaulieu and Prévost-Paradol’s respective colonial models. In the last years of...
The year 1830 was important for a distant event: the bombardment by French forces of the Barbary...
The share of Americans saying colleges and universities have a negative effect has increased by 12 percentage...
The apogee of one’s training was to comprehend the laws and to be a vital member of...
For the ancient Greeks, music was viewed as quite literally a gift from the gods. By Mark...
Will we allow the most hateful and uncaring among us to write our history, or will we...
The impact of restricitionist policies was tempered by the fact that migrants continued to enter the U.S....
Following the Red Scare of 1919, widespread fear of radicalism fueled anti-foreign sentiment and exclusionist demands. Introduction...
In Latin America several countries are under turmoil, as people cannot even meet their most basics needs....
Traditional tile art tells the stories of Portugal’s proud seafaring history. By Kim MartinsHistorian Introduction Glazed blue...
Lisbon was the capital of the Portuguese Empire, a nation of explorers, seafarers and conquerors. By Wanda...
‘California is America fast-forward.’ The Golden State is on fire, which means that an idea of American...
The cataclysmic eruption of Thera split the island of Santorini into three smaller ones. By Jenna Frawley...
The three Storegga Slides of 6225-6170 BCE are considered to be amongst the largest known landslides. Introduction...
The first internet communication was underwhelming, thanks to a computer crash. But a lot has happened since...