The movement toward oligarchy was led by a number of prominent and wealthy Athenians. Introduction The Athenian...
Athenian democracy was indeed a direct democracy, but not for everybody. By Georgios Mavropalias A sequence of...
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Writings from the time provide rich insights about their intentions. As the Founding Fathers were drafting the...
The winning supporters of ratification of the Constitution were called Federalists and the opponents were called Anti-Federalists....
By 1796 politics in every state was nearly monopolized by two parties, with party newspapers and caucuses...
Examining the type of anesthesia and techniques employed to prepare patients for invasive surgery in ancient Rome....
Treatments became more well known, and surgery became more sophisticated. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Roman medicine was...
Industrial development usually targets poor communities, but Ascension Parish is one of the richest, and most toxic,...
Air quality has improved for decades across the U.S., but Louisiana is backsliding. Our analysis found that...
Understanding history can deepen our sense of what it means to be human and how fragile our...
What caused the rise and then collapse 2,600 years ago of this vast empire centered on Mesopotamia?...
In the United States, 46.4 percent of adults will experience a mental illness at some point during their life....
Recalling a time when Pinochet along with President Nixon and Henry Kissinger forced upon Chile economic policies...
Works by artists like Velasco, Troya, Chartrand, and Oller offer an alternative to depictions by foreign artists....
By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction For the Incas finely worked and highly decorative textiles came to symbolize both...
One of the reasons humans prefer an organized government is that we’ve had them for thousands of...
Banking was highly developed and subject to Roman Law, and money deposits were to be safeguarded and...
Persian governors and the satrapy system established the paradigm recognizable in the present day of a central...
The ‘two rivers’ of the name referred to the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and the land...
Today’s fundamentalist Catholics find themselves embroiled in what they consider a war for the soul of their...
The musical changes that took place in the Counter Reformation were changes that set the precedent for...
Don’t count out Erasmus, an early proponent of similarly radical ideas. Introduction Martin Luther, a German theologian,...
The gods were thought to have a vested interest in the health and success of the Roman...
Introduction Auspicia, the reading of birds’ behavior by religious figures, became officially accepted during the Roman Republic....
Examining religious utterances such as curses, supplication, and prayer, as reflected in some passages from ancient Greek...
The role of priestess at Delphi was enormously influential. She was consulted on everything from warfare to...
Everybody loves to travel once in a while, some in search of a new adventure, and others...
In the sixteenth century, cities were considered to embody an ideal of sophisticated and refined living. The...