The outcome of the very close election surprised political leaders. The 1824 presidential election marked the final...
History
The Electoral College may not have been expressly designed only to protect African slavery, but based on...
In the 1820s, political leaders and parties rose to popularity by championing the will of the people....
The 1787 debate over how slaves would be counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative...
Analyzing the role that Progressive Era writers played in restoring the image of the small business owner....
Serfs increased their political power by acting collectively in village communities which began to hold their own...
The Lyceum had been used for philosophical debate long before Aristotle and stood long after. Introduction The Lyceum (Ancient...
Plato conceived education as an art of perfecting human beings. By Br. Francis Maluf What Is Education?...
Vance Packard’s ‘Hidden Persuaders’ was an exposé of the new techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s...
In the 1920s, doctors who believed labour-saving devices in the home were creating a ‘vacuum’ in housewives’...
The full range of consumer goods of the period was set out to tempt the shopper and...
The Mediterranean Sea was the economic focal point of the Roman Empire. By Michael GoodyearJ.D. CandidateUniversity of Michigan...
The wealth of Egypt was owed in large part to the unrivaled fertility of the Nile. By...
The history of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1888-1901), the most influential hermetic society of...
There began a cult of Khayyám that lasted at least until the First World War. By Roman...
In early modern Sweden bathing was a part of everyday life. There were public and private hot-steam...
The word aphrodisiac only began to be used to describe such foods in the late seventeenth century....
The types of Christianity they professed had important differences that led to a lack of recognition and...
Something very important to note about Augustus and his political, societal and religious views is the significant...
The Supreme Court had barely gotten used to its new chamber when the War of 1812 commenced...
The United States Colored Troops (USCT) was a branch of the United States Army founded in 1863....
The Kushan Empire reached its cultural zenith circa 105 – 250 C.E. and extended from Tajikistan to...
The Seleucid Empire was a Hellenistic successor state of Alexander the Great’s empire, which at its height...
How did Greenpeace develop this affinity with Native Americans? The German branch of Greenpeace announced itself to...
Even though Neste tried to conceal its intentions, they were obvious enough to members of the local...
What tools would an alchemist use in the quest to transmute other elements into gold? David Teniers...
Chinese alchemists developed methods for manipulating minerals and altering the state of substances. Introduction Most of us...
The ancient Near East, and the Fertile Crescent in particular, is generally seen as the birthplace of...
Considering language from a biological perspective led researchers to the idea that new food processing technologies affected...
What were the causes of the Second World War? Pinpointing the causes of a vast, global event...