If we’re cowardly, we must steel ourselves; if we’re tired, we must wake ourselves; if we’re paralyzed,...
Exploring the changing meaning and significance of the American Revolution during the 18th and 19th Centuries. Originally...
In 1775, opposition became armed rebellion. Many of the participants of the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, including...
Widely held beliefs in eugenic “science” and pervasive fear of foreigners led the US Congress to pass...
Exploring the subject of immigration in U.S. history with particular attention to the two and a half...
It is a sad day for our country when comparisons between the leader of Nazi Germany and...
More than seventy British men and women were convicted – mostly in secret trials – of working...
After WWI, German psychiatrists diagnosed traumatized soldiers as having “hysteria,” othering the men to somewhat disastrous effect....
While in the Balkans, Celtic tribes managed to conquer several Greek, Illyrian, and Thracian armies, carving out...
The Aeneid is Virgil’s masterpiece that he completed after eleven years of intensive work. Originally published by...
While Congress stalls, you can take other kinds of actions to help immigrants in transition, in detention,...
Maybe, maybe not, but it certainly didn’t do what it’s authors intended. Introduction For as long as...
A law designed to repair flaws in the fabric of American justice also created new ones. At...
When ABC brought William F. Buckley, Jr., and Gore Vidal together, the media became more interested in...
His ideas altered the education of children worldwide. “I believe that education is the fundamental method of...
An introduction and prologue for the first campaigns against Sicily and the relations between both Sicily and...
Greek temples are one of the earliest well-defined expressions of what we now recognize as the Western...
A scholar went on a Voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti and learned how an oppressive slave past has...
Well-worn routes resulted along which regular stopping points allowed pilgrims to sleep, eat, and be cared for...
Originally established in the 13th century to combat heretical groups, the Inquisition became a sophisticated, global operation...
The medieval Church developed and retained its power by encouraging the innate human fear of death and...
Economic progress alone will not bring stability to the region. By Larry Garber Watching the Bahrain Peace...
There are at least five reasons why the claim that the Bible is to be taken literally...
For thousands of years, Yazidism incorporated elements of Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Gnosticism, Christianity, and Islam. By Seth EislundStudentCarleton...
Interned Japanese-Americans produced newspapers to chronicle the stories and experiences of their community in a time of...
In 1911, the Dillingham Commission set a half-century precedent for screening out ‘undesirable’ newcomers. The Dillingham Commission...
Seeking out the histories and communities that existed before Route 66 and that survive still today. By...
The president and his Seneca friend Ely Parker wanted Native Americans to gain citizenship, but their efforts...
Europeans, speaking Spanish, Italian and French, had to communicate with indigenous peoples through Nahuatl, the lingua franca...
Archaeologists interested in what the skull trophies may tell about a tumultuous time of shifting political power....