Exploring voting rules and electoral procedures used in the Middle Ages in both ecclesiastical and secular contexts....
History
It is less well-known than the Black Death plague but was constantly present throughout the Middle Ages....
Old English continued to be used a century after William’s victory at the Battle of Hastings. Even...
Ovid’s poems in exile have been seen as of fundamental importance for the study of Roman aristocracy...
2,500 years ago, Anaxagoras correctly determined that the rocky moon reflects light from the sun, explaining lunar...
Raised in plantation privilege, Mary Boykin Chestnut was unprepared for the trauma of war and defeat. “February...
After the Civil War, touring groups of black college singers popularized slavery-era songs, giving rise to a...
White Christian slaveholders argued that slavery was a necessary evil because it would control the sinful, less...
Henry VIII and his heirs became equally as oppressive as the Catholic Church whose chains they threw...
New linguistic research suggests early Germanic language and culture was strongly influenced by the Mediterranean superpower Carthage....
The languages they spoke are usually divided into three branches: East, Central, and South Semitic languages. Introduction...
Events during the movement included the Occupation of Alcatraz, the Trail of Broken Treaties, the Occupation of...
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has a long history of struggle, protest, and resistance to white...
Amos Lawrence backed abolitionist pioneers in the town that bears his name. On May 24, 1854, Anthony...
Everyone carried a weapon. Some of them were even works of art. By Bill WorthenLate DirectorHistoric Arkansas...
A Buddha is seen as one who becomes awakened to the true nature of reality, and awakened...
What is this figurine and why was it so important to King Rama I (r. 1782-1809 CE)?...
The very first hack came in 1878 when a group of teenage boys, hired to run the...
McLuhan lives on today as the immortal saint of electronic culture. The 20th-century futurists were susceptible to...
On the 4th of July of 1870, a 1,200 mile race between two steamboats on the Mississippi...
Humans have been making art about horses longer than we have been riding them. Introduction From the...
In its most basic form, the writ of habeas corpus serves as the final chance a prisoner...
The notion of the state as a commonwealth in which the ruled as well as the ruler...
Plato’s Nomoi and the Book of Deuteronomy dealt intensively with the fissures between rich and poor within...
Elites feared falling into poverty and tried to keep the evil eye away with laughable figures. By...
In Greek and Roman mythology, a “palladium” was an image of great antiquity on which the safety...
The name of the new god in ordinary everyday parlance was pa Aton, “the Aton.” By Dr....
Exploring archery technology, the production of bone tools and ground stone tools, flintknapping, and prehistoric pottery. Overview...
2.6-million-year-old tools from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Introduction The appearance of simple stone tools, widely known as...
As the US battled the 1918 influenza pandemic, some communities staged contentious battles against wearing masks. Sound...