The Roman Forum / Photo by Bert Kaufmann, Wikimedia Commons The best intentions often end in the...
Whataboutism was long so pervasive in the USSR that it became a joke among Soviets and remains...
Orwell’s famous Ministry of Truth propaganda from his novel, 1984 The idea is to tear apart Russia’s...
Roman villa in Gaul sacked by the hordes of Attila the Hun, by Georges Rochegrosse, 1910 /...
Invasion of the Barbarians or The Huns approaching Rome by Ulpiano Checa, 1887 / Wikimedia Commons The Huns...
Egglestone Abbey, Barnard Castle in County Durham In medieval England, people in debt or who had broken...
From the Domesday Book Today, we tend to think that birth alone confers citizenship. Not so in...
The Shinto shrine of Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha, Mount Fuji. The site’s most important shrine, it was...
The Japanese Tea Ceremony / Photo by mrhayata, Creative Commons Tea was first drunk by Chinese monks...
His Republic was purely allegorical, a thorough experiment on the meaning of justice. By Dr. Aeon Skoble...
Plato surrounded by students in his Academy in Athens. Mosaic (detail) from the Villa of T. Siminius...
War emergencies, Madison argued, were tests to obey the Constitution, not ignore it. By Dr. Burton W....
Starting in the 1600s, European philosophers began debating the question of who should govern a nation. Curated/Reviewed...
The economic system of the Middle Ages was founded on feudalism, supporting the overlords with the work...
Conflicts between the medieval Christian church, led by the Pope, and nations, ruled by kings, occurred throughout...
Lucius Aemilius Paullus, acting as imperator, breaking ties of serfdom / Photo by Marco Prins, Louvre Museum,...
Darius, relief from the Central Relief of the Northern Stairs of the Apadana, Persepolis When Darius became...
Senator John F. Kennedy speaks to supporters at Chicago Stadium four days before the 1960 election. AP...
The 1824 presidential election marked the final collapse of the Republican-Federalist political framework. For the first time...
1493 woodcut of Basle, from the Nuremberg Chronicle / Wikimedia Commons Population growth had exceeded the limits...
The Black Death was the largest demographic disaster in European history. By Dr. David Routt / 07.20.2008...
Scene from the Song Dynasty Illustrations of the Classic of Filial Piety, depicting a son kneeling before...
The top of the Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi / Creative Commons Hammurabi ruled through provincial...
His radical non-conformist and individualistic life-style and his writings were considered eccentric, unrealistic and unproductive in a...
It was the rising up of American taxpayers to refuse payment of a hated tax, and Washington’s...
They may look similar, but online trolls act differently. Daren Woodward/Shutterstock.com Some behaviors might help tell propaganda-spewing...
Outside forces have pushed the American people farther apart. Delpixel/Shutterstock.com Cybersecurity experts in the US knew about...
Reviewing the Crimean War and the role Florence Nightingale had in highlighting the plight of the soldiers....
Svjatoslav Svjatoslav’s lands were divided by his sons, who fought a war of succession. By Dr. Sanderson...
The village of Deir el-Medina in the West Bank of Luxor, Egypt. Anne Austin, Author provided Records...