Archaeologists and historians suggest that humans were living in Afghanistan at least 50,000 years ago, and that...
Long before the arrival of Alexander the Great on India’s north-western border, there are references in early...
Edmund Randolph was the seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United...
Setting Precedent: The First Senate and President Washington Struggle to Define “Advice and Consent” 
Setting Precedent: The First Senate and President Washington Struggle to Define “Advice and Consent”
Our Constitution and the governmental structure that it created have weathered crises, adapted to change, and stood...
Despite their common interests, relations between the foreigners and the Chinese community grew more tense during the...
Canton’s foreign quarter, sited between the city wall and the river, fit comfortably into the classic design...
Machiavelli’s earlier book, Discourses on Livy, displayed strong support for free speech, a republican form of government, and compromise....
Comparing the different approaches towards artistic activity of Plato and Aristotle. By David OrozcoProfessor of PhilosophyPontificia Universidad...
Fictional characters, unlike laudanum-addicted impostors, never really die. A handsome youth with shoulder-length golden hair sits in...
In ‘Peasant and Nestrobber’, Bruegel was engaged with the troubles of his time. Abstract Pieter Bruegel the...
The Drug War is responsible for a cycle that creates more violence and higher profits for drug...
This 15th-century mystic turned her hand to brewing the bubbly, and she wasn’t very successful. By Karl...
By looking at drug addiction from an evolutionary perspective, we may understand its underlying significance and evaluate...
Thousands of years before their collapse, severely soggy conditions lasting for many centuries likely inhibited the civilization’s...
Extensive trade networks connected the Maya to the rest of Mesoamerica, producing the dynamic landscapes and bustling...
Christian Zionism is an often-overlooked example of the powerful role Christians and Christian institutions play in US...
Looking at some of the direct results of the Christian belief in God-sanctioned dominion. By Paul KivelEducator...
In 1811 a former slave named Henry Christophe anointed himself ‘First Monarch’ of the ‘New World.’ For...
By the late nineteenth century, no official copy could be found of the document that introduced Haiti...
Sex worker card collection, Thomas SG Farnetti / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons In the 1980s a change...
In Victorian times, syphilis was believed to arise spontaneously in a prostitute’s body, a result of ‘immorality’....
The historic University of Paris first appeared in the second half of the twelfth century. Introduction The...
Monasteries were important centers of learning which educated the young and produced new technologies for agricultural and...
In a time of great national crisis, a president took the bold step of declaring freedom for...
A bill of lading is a document issued by a carrier to a shipper acknowledging receipt of...
In 1896, a woman university student living in Zurich published in pamphlet form an extraordinary tirade against...
As important as sexuality is to being human, it is often viewed as a taboo topic for...
This tactic could set a political foe aside from the whole community and turn the audience against...
Epaminondas transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a preeminent...
Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, she beat the odds. By Carole MerrittFormer...