While the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing is an opportunity to celebrate a remarkable technological...
History
Two hundred years after New England’s first great hurricane, we ask very different questions about the nature...
About 19,000 years ago in southwestern France at a site called Saint-Germain-La-Rivière, an adult woman dies and...
Poet-politician Joel Barlow personified an ideology borne of religious antipathy and economic rivalry. No sooner had the...
What it was like at the main gateway to the U.S. in the early 20th century. Immigrants...
Discussing the role of animals in transport, logistics, cavalry and communications in the First World War. Introduction...
Examining the U.S. 82nd Infantry Division and the bloodiest battle in American history. Originally published by Learn...
Geographical importance and religious differences were both factors in the war. Introduction Overview In Britain, the Crimean...
With major dailies giving a megaphone to the police, the coverage of Stonewall is a reminder of...
Sex between people of the same gender has existed for millennia. But anthropologists in sub-Saharan Africa often...
Contrasting nineteenth-century ideas (including Livingstone’s own) about fever with modern ideas about the causes and appropriate treatment...
A detailed description of Livingstone’s medical education and an overview of how his education affected his recording...
So-called heresies offered the opportunity for religious expression outside of the narrowly defined and self-serving precepts of...
The Donation of Constantine was most likely written, and almost certainly used, to coerce Pepin the Short...
What social conditions contributed to the revolution? How did the United States seek to influence events in...
To understand the struggle for Mexican independence, it’s necessary to explore both the wider, international context and...
The relationship between power—or politics—and culture in French history is an ambivalent one, defined as much by...
Arguments made by eighteenth-century writers about the slave trade and contributions to those debates by freed slave...
Exploring how novel Oroonoko compares to other representations of race, slavery, and colonialism in the seventeenth and...
Inscriptions ranging from the first Persian king, Cyrus, through Artaxerxes reveal elements in common in both Babylonian...
The Assyrian king was the main promoter of big feasts and special events, during which he played...
How the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment is being remembered and how, for decades, it was not....
Nasty wenches, deputy husbands, and other female survivors of Early America. “Nir nir nir,” that is,“me me...
A hundred years ago, Charles Hatfield cashed in on America’s weakness for quick fixes – even if...
James Graham, founder of the Temple of Health, benefitted from his undeniable flair for showmanship and his...
The fortifications were the largest and strongest ever built in either the ancient or medieval worlds. By...
The Varangians were probably as shocking a sight to Byzantine enemies as tanks would have been to...
In 1915, new creature comforts created by technology merged with the back-to-nature movement. On August 21, 1915,...
As the automobile industry took off, drivers discovered the romance and freedom of long-distance travel. Tens of...
Portraits, landscape paintings, drawings, and historical maps flesh out the cultural history. By Jennifer Smart A rare,...