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Books not included when the New Testament became official after Constantine’s conversion to Christianity. Introduction In the...
Julius Caesar sought to create a calendar that remained aligned to the sun without any human intervention....
We can typically identify three clear waves of European colonialism. Introduction The historical phenomenon of colonization is one that...
Abortion laws and their enforcement have fluctuated through various eras. Introduction The practice of induced abortion—the deliberate termination...
The Portuguese began their empire as a search for access to the gold of West Africa. Introduction...
Printing dates far back into the ancient world with different types of tools and technology and hasn’t...
The arrival of mechanical movable type printing in Europe in the Renaissance introduced a new era of...
In the 5th century B.C., Empedocles and Anaxagoras offered arguments for the spherical nature of the Earth....
Money is a fascinating subject with a long, complex history. Over the years, humans have come up...
The Roman Empire began as a single city-state, and it ended the same way. Constantinople at first had...
Works of art since ancient times have revealed the complexities of a wide range of gender identities...
Martyrdom is most often juxtaposed to a dominant social or religious worldview. Introduction A martyr is someone who voluntarily...
Latvians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts. Their language is one of the only two...
The term “Baltic states” refers to countries by the Baltic Sea that had gained independence from the...
African peoples quickly began to see the bewildering new threat to them from these strange visitors with...
The war challenged the status quo and led the lower class to hope for a radical change...
An Archaeological History of Spatial Approaches to Native Cultural Landscapes in the Middle Atlantic 
An Archaeological History of Spatial Approaches to Native Cultural Landscapes in the Middle Atlantic
How archaeologists can continue to improve and diversify the cartographic conventions they use to illustrate Native social...
Reconstructing a brief history of the discipline using five phases periodization. Introduction Twenty-five years ago Marcel Desittere,...
Gütschow was among the first women to play a prominent role in the development of the archaeological...
From Chinese fire arrows and Congreve barrages to liquid-fueled launch vehicles, rockets evolved through centuries of warfare...
The history of education extends at least as far back as the first written records recovered from...
The invention of money took place before the beginning of written history. Introduction The history of money concerns the...
Today the term “antiquarian” is often used to refer to an excessively narrow focus on factual historical...
Conservatism in every place and time is founded on deception. The deceptions of conservatism today are especially...
The long history of Jews in Kyiv and how they thrived, despite hostilities, always coming back. Introduction...
Hierarchical society flourished in ancient Egypt largely because of the central cultural principle of ma’at. A Hierarchy...
NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist studies the people who invent new tongues. Most languages develop through centuries...
To understand Russia’s war in Ukraine, look to the blend of religious and militaristic nationalism under Putin....
The term derives from Latin nobilis (“noble but also secondarily well-known, famous, notable”). Introduction Nobility is a social class found...