The yurt tent has been used by nomadic pastoralist peoples of northern East Asia since before written...
Getty Curators Frances Terpak and Peter Bonfitto answer questions about how the ancient site was recorded and...
Early settlements in the area, such as Tell Brak, date back to at least 6000 BCE. Introduction...
Key facts about how the U.S. Hispanic origin groups are changing and how they differ from one...
By mistaking a culture’s history for fantasy, or by disrespecting the wealth of indigenous knowledge, we’re keeping...
Native American assistance to freedom seekers crossing through the Midwest has largely been erased from Underground Railroad...
Two factors overlapped to result in the genocide of the Kikotan people. Reckoning with the past is...
An update on America’s changing religious landscape. The religious landscape of the United States continues to change...
Diderot produced an impressive, unfinished work over at least 15 years. Introduction Today (October 5) is 300...
The Enlightenment directly involved only the educated spheres of society. After Pietism and the Moravian movement, the...
His irregular maneuvers over the course of the past two elections upended a number of key democratic...
In the ancient world, the concept of monotheism as we understand it today did not exist; all...
These figures, whatever other purposes they served, were expressions of the fears and hopes of the people....
Voodoo is often seen as a practice involving magic. In Haiti, Voodoo is a religion born out...
Before establishing mainland colonies, Spain first settled the larger Caribbean islands. Among the areas Columbus discovered during...
The Golden Horde extended from the Caucasus to Hungary to Constantinople, inspiring fear across the known the...
Batu would serve as the kingmaker of the Mongol Empire. Introduction Batu Khan (l. 1205-1255 CE) was...
Mr. Erdogan’s decision to opt for a military solution fits the mold of a critical mass of...
These peoples were among the oldest Indo-European ethnolinguistic groups, one of the most archaic Introduction Anatolians were...
The Archaic Age saw the gradual culmination of developments in social and political organization in ancient Greece....
Sportsmen with roots in the Emerald Isle reshaped the image of the shantytwon ruffian. In his 1888...
For generations, a mysterious ethnic group was shunned, but new research sheds light on its Revolutionary War...
The official conversion of Kyivan Rus’ took place in 988, and imparted an exceptionally high status to...
Kievan Rus’, medieval Ukraine, played an important role in both Russia and Europe. Introduction Kievan Rus′ was...
They cleverly allied themselves with European powers in order to protect themselves from the Ottomans. Introduction The...
A mixed, cosmopolitan form of social and cultural life combining Hellenic (Greek) traditions with indigenous traditions emerged...
They were pioneers who didn’t know there was a glass ceiling as that term had not yet...
In 1918, the Marine Corps began investigating how the integration of women would take place. By Kenna...
In the 19th century, more people were reading more publications than ever before. This explains how technological,...
Exploring the way Victorians bought, borrowed and read their books, and the impact of the popular literature...