From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Disneyland, the concept has represented both the experimental and the conventional. In the...
History
Texas cattle trails, cattle drives, and the people who worked them. Originally published by the Texas Alliance...
After the Civil War, Rose Herera wanted more than freedom – she wanted justice. Early in 1865,...
A virtual tour of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Originally published by Lapham’s Quarterly,...
The findings are some of the earliest evidence of cannabis used as a drug. People have been...
In Asia, because of its huge land mass and multiple diverse cultures, there are several overlapping timelines....
Napoleon didn’t like sitting for portraits, and yet artists and mass market prints helped cement his legendary...
Most of these Americans left behind little evidence explaining why they took up arms for the French...
Lincoln has generally been absent as a model in European social and public life, rarely emphasized as...
The exponential growth of his popularity built into a memorial crescendo. Lincoln’s ascension to the status of...
Through the trauma of war, and by learning from his mistakes, the first president gained empathy and...
The first president was indispensable to our early republic, precisely because he didn’t see himself as indispensable....
It was unparalleled, this confluence of public health, politics, clinical medicine, and public anxiety. The following is...
During the past two decades, historians of twentieth-century Britain have delineated the landscape of a “modern sexual...
By midcentury, Victorian natural historians seemed hungry for information from formerly inaccessible regions of Africa. With a...
Darwin to understand the convergence of disparate scales of geological and human history. The event now known...
What were the links between abolition and imperialism in East Africa? Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections...
Most traditional religions in Africa have developed at the local level and are unique to a particular...
One of the most important moments in the story of Prince Siddhartha is when he reached spiritual...
History in South Africa from the Stone Age to the Mid-19th century This essay provides a summary...
The trade of gold in West Africa goes back to antiquity. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction West Africa...
Nebuchadnezzar II, the Chaldean king, is supposed to have had the gardens built in about 600 BC...
The city of Babylon was given hegemony over Mesopotamia by their sixth ruler, Hammurabi. Introduction Babylonia, named for...
The variety of native traditions, available materials, and architectural expertise has given the continent new and culturally...
Used by the indigenous peoples of the Americas for millennia, it was only in the last decade...
Thousands of women volunteered as nurses during the Civil War. On April 14, 1861, Fort Sumter fell—the...
Nursing may be the oldest known profession, as some nurses were paid for their services from the...
Apollo 8 was the moment that humanity realized a dream conceived in our cultural imagination over two...
Take a tour through Melbourne with a Greek lens and discover the rich Hellenic influences that shape...
As the need for ranch workers has dwindled, the iconic status of cowboys has continued to grow....