Herodion, the palace fortress and highest peak in the Judaean Desert, is the only site that is...
History
In a single stroke, Davis and his legacy were all but buried. What was it like to...
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.” “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” These words could have been reasonably spoken...
Dealing in false coinage was said to undermine the king’s prerogative to issue currency, illegally reproduce his...
The origin of the idea that liberty could be preserved through the separation of powers endures through...
Greek city-states developed different forms of governance with very different political structures and strengths. The Emergence of...
There are lessons to be learned from this story. In October 1924, during the general election campaign...
The British poster artist Cyril Kenneth Bird, known as Fougasse, once referred to posters as “anything stuck...
America was seen as the promised land by the oppressed and exploited masses. By Åse Elin LangelandHistorian...
Germany can look back on a long history of migration. By Dr. Vera Hanewinkel and Dr. Jochen...
A lot of what is known about pirates is not true, and a lot of what is...
Almost everything we know about Dr. Lionel Wafer comes from his own pen. He enters the historical...
How James Harris changed the NFL’s marquee role. An hour or two before kickoff on the night...
As a player and a coach, Walter Camp rewrote rugby’s rules to create a sport fit for...
Examining the dietary and physiological requirements of a modern athlete and contrasting this with those of ancient...
Punishment for cheating and bribery in the Olympics of Ancient Greece could include fines, public flogging and...
Without distractions, he produced some of his best writing there in exile. By Ted Lawrence, J.D. Some writers are...
Jame’s Laughlin’s life amalgamated many seemingly dissonant strains in twentieth-century America into a coherent whole. The American...
Times had taken a sharp turn for the worse. Lexington and Concord had changed everything. When the...
Americans were fed up. The “Intolerable Acts” were more than the colonies could stand. In the summer...
Gaining an understanding of the particular social processes involved in the transitional Terminal Classic period in this...
Because Mayan hieroglyphs have yet to be encoded, the ancient Mayan emperor K’inich Janaab’ Pakal would have...
Prior to 1951, there was no systematic way for the U.S. government to communicate with citizens during...
Twenty years from now, there will be no eyewitnesses left to tell their stories. Only twice in...
In this confidence trick, the criminal contacted the victim offering a large sum of money, or other...
The origins of the sixteenth President’s facial hair are more tangled than you might think. It’s a...
A community in so many ways defined by reinvention butting up against land prized for its preservation...
The humble sea turtle became the pinnacle of haute cuisine in the eighteenth century. From calipash to calipee, the green...
Political extremism seems to have spread to both sides of the Atlantic. By Dr. Jon X. Eguia...
The GOP has absorbed selected aspects of her rhetoric and larger aims of the libertarian purists. Ayn...