The came about, at least in part, due to the dynamics in the relationship between three forceful...
Understanding their population has helped us to understand what it is to be human. By Anna GoldfieldArchaeologist...
Paleoanthropologist Carol Ward explains how walking upright marked a milestone in hominin history. By Dr. Tom GarlinghouseArchaeologist/Anthropologist...
Education has been around for several centuries. Since the dawn of mankind, education has evolved and developed...
Montgomery, Alabama, seeks to make criminals of the less fortunate. By Bradley Bennett Jonathan sleeps under a...
Robert Lee was the nation’s most notable traitor since Benedict Arnold. There’s a fabled moment from the...
Reconstruction-era governments did make genuine gains in rebuilding Southern states devastated by the war. By Tina Ulrich,...
While the Southern army dwindled, the Union simply mustered new armies and tried again. By Tina Ulrich,...
By the end of the thirteenth century the social context for the abandonment of infants and children...
Two different perceptions of the sin of overeating in the Middle Ages. Gluttony—overindulging in food or drink—was...
Amazons of legend and very real Scythian tribes were mentioned in the same breath in ancient Greece....
In mythology, the Amazons were daughters of Ares, the god of war. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction In...
The measles virus probably descended from the ancestors of the modern canine distemper and/or rinderpest viruses. By...
The city-state of Sparta, and much of the eastern Mediterranean, was also struck by the disease. Introduction...
Trump opened the way for Putin to surge in the Middle East, and he’s taking the opportunity....
He looted the city and burned it to the ground. Introduction In the year 330 BCE Alexander...
It was the capital from the reign of Darius I (the Great, r. 522-486 BCE) until its...
The Four Hundred government in Athens suffered from instability as conflict soon arose between moderates and extremists...
Athenian democracy was indeed a direct democracy, but not for everybody. By Georgios Mavropalias A sequence of...
Wedding trends are constantly changing. Remember the donut walls that were everywhere? They’ve since faded out –...
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Writings from the time provide rich insights about their intentions. As the Founding Fathers were drafting the...
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....