All of the housing built for government job-creation programs of the New Deal was segregated. For many...
History
Examining classical Athens’ distinctive approach to building a system of law and order. Abstract How do democratic...
Rhetoric took precedence over evidence in Ancient Athenian courts. By Lauren Davis Introduction To many modern audiences,...
For its courts, modern Europe turned to the old Roman cognitio in the form of the so-called Romano-canonical procedure....
Just as in modern literature, it is a complex and rich field of study, from the utterly...
This is the era the Europeans and Eastern counterparts “woke up”, expanded, and built empires. Introduction The history...
Genetic research is shedding new light on the history of diseases. Introduction The death date of smallpox...
The ancient pathogens in old graves are as dead as the people they once infected. Still, they...
If history provides any guidance, the next pandemic organism may already be lurking. This fall, when U.S....
The portrayal of bears in Russian folklore and heraldry and their use as a symbol of national...
The pervasiveness and extreme nature of North Korea’s personality cult surpasses that of even Joseph Stalin or...
The iconic image may have originated with a meat supplier named Samuel Wilson. Or not. A Patriotic...
Only one, Grover Cleveland, was successful. A year after the election of 2020, Donald Trump flirts with...
A mob of white supremacists armed with rifles and pistols marched on City Hall in Wilmington, North...
An international schoolboy exchange program was used by the Nazis to favorably influence public opinion of the...
“No one knows but the birds where I hid my money.” Aristophanes wrote in the 5th century BCE...
The galleons were well-armed with cannons and packed with troops. Introduction From the 16th to 18th centuries,...
Finding a locked box spilling over with gold, emeralds, and pearls was something of an uncommon jackpot...
Take a look at these gambling books It is critical to read. The men and women of...
Women today stand on the shoulders of those who fought for thousands of years for basic rights....
Women were treated as property and often forced into prostitution by a patriarchal hierachy. Introduction Prostitution in...
Christianity followed an old pattern when it developed its own rules of behavior for “the Christian life.”...
Ancient Greek houses frequently had a “complex pattern of spatial usage”, with rooms being used for multiple...
The Roman house was, as is true today, where the nuclear family lived. When one thinks of...
Alpine cottages arose, unexpectedly, amid the hillocks and modest streams of 19th-century England. This article, Little Switzerlands:...
The barracks emperors rose in response to a series of threats to the stability of the state....
Knights were the most-feared and best-protected warriors on the medieval battlefield. Introduction The knights of medieval Europe were meant...
The buccaneers were largely English, Dutch, and French united by a hatred of Spain and a desire...
Already in 1st-century CE Rome there was a Christian community. Introduction The central figure of the medieval...
The Carolingian kings and emperors dominated the politics but faced constant challenges to their rule. Introduction The Carolingian...