The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. Introduction...
History
Shrouded in secrecy, ancient mystery cults fascinate and capture the imagination. Shrouded in secrecy, ancient mystery cults...
The Canaanites were the people who inhabited the land of what is now Israel and Palestine before...
Canaanite religion was polytheistic, and in some cases monolatristic. Introduction Canaanite religion refers to the group of...
At first, the Cuban revolution seemed doomed to fail. Sixty years ago, Fidel Castro launched an audacious bid to...
By Christopher Woolf In 2016, Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit Cuba since...
Thomas Jefferson crafted a letter to John Adams in a delayed reply to several other letters on...
As the first residents of the White House, they began, under difficult conditions, a 200-year tradition of...
Aristotle studied developing organisms, among other things, in ancient Greece, and his writings shaped Western philosophy and...
Looking at the Precambrian and Phanerozoic Eons. Introduction The geological history of Earth follows the major events...
In 1920 the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was declared. History The first settlements in the territory...
The Rus are first mentioned in the Annals of Saint-Bertin. Introduction Kievan Rus (862-1242 CE) was a...
The “Roma” and Travelers are not a single, homogeneous group of people. The terms Gypsies, Roma, and...
After capturing Constantinople in 1204, the Fourth Crusaders established several states in former Byzantine territory. Starting from...
The discovery of lapis lazuli pigment preserved in the dental calculus of a religious woman in Germany...
The codex didn’t catch on until surprisingly late in the ancient world. By Benjamin HarnettClassics Scholar A...
This witch-hunt harmed even more people than did the Red Scare, often trying to throw people under...
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?” Introduction In the...
After about 1244 CE, the city remained a backwater of the late medieval Muslim empires and would...
Jews living in Europe were easy, early targets for Crusaders while life was comparatively tranquil in Islamic...
Cultural, economic, and knowledge transfer occurred in spite of a seemingly long series of hurdles that had...
The history of Eurasia is the collective history of a continental area with several distinct peripheral coastal...
Chinese immigration to the United States was a result of European and American imperialism in Asia on...
The first statute in the United States to codify naturalization law. Alternately known as the Nationality Act,...
James Madison proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution, but only 10 were approved. When the Constitutional Convention...
The absence of a “bill of rights” turned out to be an obstacle to the Constitution’s ratification...
In spite of the military genius of Hannibal, Carthage was destroyed as the result of three wars...
The Etruscan armies of part-time soldiers proved to be no match for the more professional and tactically...
After the building that symbolized ‘all that is Russian’ went up in flames, the czar scrambled to...
The Notre Dame Cathedral wasn’t static. The design, as with most cathedrals, kept changing to keep up...