“Alabama Fever” triggered a takeover by cotton planters of America’s oldest indigenous region. The Old South wasn’t...
Conservatives are now basking in the limelight, but the day will come when the right inevitably falls...
The enterprising Philadelphian was a long-time Royalist and late-blooming rebel who fused the American project with English...
George Mason’s intellectual potency had a decisive role in shaping and producing our founding documents. America was...
During the years 550 to 330 B.C.E., the name “Pars Sea” was widely written in the compiled...
It can be difficult to imagine that the antiquities in museums were once a part of vibrant...
The mostly Eastern European victims were forgotten because of an ensuing backlash against immigrant workers. At the...
Examining different time periods and ethnic groups to document the history of a city where immigrants have...
While the Marquis de Lafayette gets a share of the glory, names like Gardoqui and Gálvez are...
The blood-sucking insect has played a leading role in the rise and fall of empires throughout history....
Shrouded by myth and intrigue, Catherine the Great is now regarded as one of history’s most influential...
Alexander the Great pushed east into Mesopotamia with the intention of bringing Darius to battle. Introduction After...
The public was charmed by his presentation as an antidote to politics, until the Great Depression hit....
Massive rallies, an emulated style, and voted from both Democrats and Republicans couldn’t save this quixotic candidate’s...
On the motives of a reluctant memoirist. In late 1884, after delivering an evening lecture at Chickering...
Fully one in four Union fighters was foreign-born. In the summer of 1861, an American diplomat in...
Even if a treaty by this name was never drawn up, it is true that there was...
The battle was won through a very unusual strategy on Cambyses II’s part: the use of animals...
The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” have too much historical baggage. In early 2019, Donald Trump warned against socialism: it “promises...
In 1888, small farmers, sharecroppers, and industrial workers organized to fight inequality. Today, when Americans think about...
George Pullman’s unbending business acumen made him a mogul but also inspired the greatest labor uprising of...
George III never visited Italy. Instead he collected prints, drawings, and guidebooks enabling him to travel virtually...
Founded by Henry I, there was a close connections between the abbey and the English kings. It...
The attack had been six years in the making, and still, the Persians were not fully prepared....
A masterful militarily astute and diplomatically strategic queen. Halicarnassus was a Graeco-Carian city that belonged to the empire of...
In 1915, a congressional bill was introduced to ban all civilian wireless activities from the airwaves. Static...
Genevieve Hitt, likely the first woman to serve the U.S. government as a cryptologist, broke ground in...
Examining the formal and contextual heterogeneity, as well as the interpretive instability, of objects representing the 1686...
Damascus is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. To understand the importance of...
You might say the Roman emperor Septimius Severus was a dreamer, but he wasn’t the only one....