Exploring seven objects that represent some of the key stages in the development of the book in...
History
The first real challenge to the constitutionality of state segregation laws came in 1938. Brown v. Board...
National and state officials initiated loyalty checks to identify and remove from office suspect government workers. “Un-American”...
The final step toward ratification hinged on the decision of one young man in Tennessee: State Rep....
How suffragists first used hunger strikes as a form of resistance and protest. Introduction Asylum seekers held...
Borrowing from the east and west, their culture and art was an amalgam easily identified as Parthian....
The neat labels of Greek text that accompany and identify many of the characters on the vase...
What we know about this figure discovered in Neferibresaneith’s tomb. What’s an Ushtabi? Ushabtis are figurines that...
These texts developed from spells that were first inscribed on scarabs and coffins at the end of...
Exploring some changes in European life that led to the Renaissance. Introduction Much of the power in...
Exploring trade and commerce, homes and households, disease and medicine, crime and punishment, and leisure and entertainment....
A new paper makes the case that scholars have ignored the role of female ceramicists in Greece...
On display at the British Museum, quite different from the Latin papyrus in terms of its size,...
The ownership of corporations and the relationship between owners and laborers were the contentious topics of the...
At the beginning of the 1880s, Democratic and Republicans candidates observed a tradition of reserve and silence...
Macbeth appears to have cleverly positioned Scotland between her more powerful neighbors yet he did not isolate...
Octavian decided he could not simply give up his authority without risking further civil wars amongst the...
The public, expecting a revised version of the Articles of Confederation, was shocked by the Constitution that...
These acts worked, inadvertently, towards unifying colonists against British policy. Abstract The purpose of my project is...
Some misconceptions are due to lack of education and experience, and some are utter nonsense and historically...
The relative inexpensiveness of the infantryman, combined with a shortage of manpower, provided incentives for expanding their...
Madison was deeply concerned with tyranny. Recent events–from Black Lives Matter protests, to a show trial for...
Adams decided that losing an election, even one for the presidency, means what it says. Students of...
One must study Chinese Law within the context of Chinese social, cultural, political, and legal history. By...
Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism would ultimately absorb other concepts and condemn previous schools of thought. Introduction The...
Thomas Cromwell’s Machiavellian maneuvering influenced his own depiction on the front of The Great Bible. Introduction The...
Exploring the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Europe during the High Middle Ages, from about...
The term is often used in a generic sense to refer to any end of the world...
Often referred to as the “Throne of the Gods”, few know of the history or function of...
The two quickly became partners, working closely together week in and out to create, edit, and perfect...