Examining various types of authority which spanned across centuries and covered all facets of Roman life. By...
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Romans obsessed on the concept of family lineage: the family was the most important thing in one’s...
The political and public reactions to Nixon’s actions were negative and highly damaging to the president. Introduction...
When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of...
The Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt is considered a “golden age”. Introduction The Faiyum (also given as...
In the manuscript, each of Khufu’s sons speaks in turn, telling their own tale for their father’s...
Some populations of Neanderthals were definitely more carnivorous than others. By Dr. Anna GoldfieldArchaeologist One of the...
Even genetics support the idea that Neanderthals were better sprinters than runners. By Dr. Anna GoldfieldArchaeologist If...
Eight decades on, the thought of the state encouraging people to attack groups of citizens is hard...
Most histories highlight the shattered storefronts and synagogues set aflame. But it was the systematic ransacking of...
The category of ‘persons who have changed their sex’ in the wonder books cannot be exactly matched...
Men were transient figures (and often dupes) of light-fingered sex workers, but women’s relationships with each other...
People in Arctic and Northwest Coast communities are uncovering the therapeutic history of tattoos. By Joshua Rapp...
People have long made their skin into canvases that convey rich personal, spiritual, or ritual meanings in...
As the new millennium began, greed, ignorance, and misplaced hopes within the tech world nearly destroyed the...
The inventions themselves were not an immediately profitable investment throughout many parts of Europe during the 18th...
Gerrymandering, the politicians’ practice of drawing district lines to favor their party and expand their power, is...
Examining the two-hundred-year-old creation of Founding Father Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts. By Harlow Giles Unger As Americans...
Their name has since come to be associated with their chief modus operandi, the act of murder...
Masada is famous for the last stand of the Zealots (and Sicarii) in the Jewish Revolt against...
Exploring some of the struggles that occurred over commemorating that most difficult of anniversaries: the execution of...
Examining the controversy between Milton and Salmasius, with a comparative analysis of the two trials (1649 and...
This kind of arrangement, know as a more danico union, a Danish-style union, was common among people...
His impacts included displacing much of the pre-Conquest Anglo-Saxon nobility to reshaping the English language. William’s Early...
The good metal preservation probably results from the moderately alkaline pH, a very small particle size of...
Horses were not used for transport, ploughing, warfare or any other practical human activity until quite late...
From gift-bestowing sparrows and peach-born heroes to goblin spiders and dancing phantom cats — in a series...
Examining Dadd’s most famous painting The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke. This article, Richard Dadd’s ‘Fairy Feller’ Master-Stroke, was...
Examining the similarities and differences between Leroy-Beaulieu and Prévost-Paradol’s respective colonial models. In the last years of...
The year 1830 was important for a distant event: the bombardment by French forces of the Barbary...