Parthia controlled territories that stretched from the Mediterranean in the west to India and China in the...
History
Once a bustling metropolis, this long-lost Egyptian city flooded, sank, and was forgotten — until archeologists rediscovered...
The Marquis de Lafayette’s name graces more city parks and streets than perhaps any other foreigner. If...
Why a 19-year-old Frenchman traded Versailles for Valley Forge. The 19-year-old Marquis de Lafayette had met only...
There is little evidence remaining from the pre-Roman worship, as they left little footprints of their spiritual...
One of history’s most influential civilizations took shape, leaving behind a cultural legacy that survives in part...
The war over-extended the capabilities of the Soviet empire, as other military engagements have helped to bring...
On August 23rd, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union stunned the world by announcing a nonaggression...
Looking at the human exchanges that took place between the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church in...
From onion domes to tsarist-era Russian dialects, evidence of the Russian colonialism remains. Every summer a conga...
These burial places formed the centers of small-scale chiefdoms and shared a set of sculptural motifs and...
Deep in the Colorado Plateau, there are paintings from an ancient people. Of the thousands of Native...
A scribe would be remembered, not only by family and friends, but by a much larger audience...
Harper’s songs were lyrics composed in ancient Egypt to be sung at funeral feasts and inscribed on...
Herndon would have sympathized with the contemporary journalist who dryly remarked that John Wilkes Booth’s fatal bullet...
Many were conflicted between their desire to believe and their want of rigorous intellectual explanation, and material...
The Pratiharas were known chiefly for their patronage of art, sculpture, and temple-building. By Dr. Avantika LalHistorian,...
We’re still playing the same game, 2500 years later. There were apparently many anti-superstitious atheists in ancient...
The titles featured here (by American authors) have had a profound effect on American life. Introduction Ask...
Beginning with a small psalm book that filled a basic need in the devotional lives of colonists,...
In addition to the numerous pioneering works of science fiction by which he made his name, H....
In the late 1800s, a U.K. scheme lured lonely bachelors with newspaper advertisements supposedly placed by wealthy...
A financial crash in 1890 convinced him that money was behind the world’s economic problems. By Greg...
Colonial opulence had to be displayed behind closed doors. At first glance, the portrait appears to be...
440 years old and filled with footprints, these aren’t your everyday maps. At the Blanton Museum of...
How did the Columbian Exchange shape food culture in the modern world? Originally published by Newberry Digital...
Their relationships were profoundly instrumental to their vision of social justice that changed America. Anyone who has...
The woman Thoreau once called the “youngest person in Concord”. Henry David Thoreau isn’t usually known for flattering comments...
The Res Gestae was a unique public relations move for the first emperor of the Roman Empire,...
Though his work was little read in the Roman world, it has influenced great thinkers such as...