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...
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, from A Blighted Life, 1880 / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons The life of Rosina...
The region of Palestine is among the earliest sites of human habitation in the world. Introduction Palestine...
Examining the period during which the empire of the “Amorites” over their environment, their culture and their...
Every third European is a speaker of a Slavic language. By area, nearly half of Europe speaks...
By one interpretation of the historiography criterion, Southeastern Europe enters protohistory only with Homer. At any rate,...
A new scene was taking root, composed of bands that combined punk’s politics and attitude with the...
Besides its striking visual characteristics, we might also consider steampunk a novel and popular way of “doing”...
The term ‘Völkerschau’ became common in 19th-century Europe and denoted the exhibition of members of particular ethnic...
A history of the expansion of Europe overseas and the multiple forms of encounters between Europeans and...