It is perhaps the fact that Washington was determined to limit his power as President that is...
History
Rivalries, conflict, and “bad blood” between presidents are part of the story of American history. Most of...
With the plague decimating the ranks of laborers, surviving workers rebelled against the crown’s higher taxes and...
Plotting John’s route for all 17 years of his reign to produce digital maps of his progress...
Knights were generally paid for their services, but not if in service to the king in a...
Codes of law existed in almost every ancient civilization in different forms and under different types of...
Calvinism is known for some notable experiments in Christian theocracy. Introduction Calvinism is a system of Christian...
Examining the Elizabethan Religious Settlement reveals how political necessity, religious compromise, and royal authority reshaped England’s identity...
Medieval medical communities and religious institutions were intermingled. Originally published by Digital Commons at Western Oregon University,...
Medieval reliquaries have been subject to widespread destruction during times of religious and political strife. Relics Christian...
These elite burial monuments are not only important for rich funerary goods but also for the complex...
Ships known as Barques of the Gods are associated with a number of different Egyptian deities. Introduction...
Many acts we would describe as crimes today were largely unprosecuted before the mid-nineteenth century. Introduction As...
Both the Georgian and Victorian eras were marked with significant changes, both socially and politically. The Georgians...
This was a ritual device intended to promote agricultural fertility. Introduction Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, in...
The Chancay lived on the central coast of Peru from c.1000 C.E. until their conquest by the...
Rock art is the primary source to study the culture, rituals, traditions, and lives of prehistoric societies....
The first appearance of these drawings can be dated back to the age of Epipaleolithic (20000-1000 BP)....
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than “the unity of nature.” Alexander von...
The story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, and contentious debates led to a discovery. By...
What two pioneers of color movies saw in a 16th-century Renaissance painting. Rosso Fiorentino has no star...
Looking at a selection of films that present a global Middle Ages, a chronologically flexible period from...
In medieval England, churches had a moral duty – and even a legal obligation – to protect...
The Praetorian Guard became notable for its intrigue and interference in Roman politics. Introduction The Praetorian Guard...
Philadelphia experienced a tumult of both anti-French and anti-Federalist sentiment. Philadelphia, as capital of the United States...
When Mary, Queen of Scots was executed in 1578, Philip had one more reason to attack England....
Roman law came to have an immense effect on law as actually practiced in the medieval world....
The difference between prehistoric and ancient warfare is more organization oriented than technology oriented. Introduction Ancient warfare...
Thrasybulus was helping his ally Periander, the tyrant of Corinth. By Sergey M. ZhestokanovProfessor of ArchaeologySt. Petersburg...
The classics contain many references to tyranny and its causes, effects, methods, practitioners, alternatives. Introduction In the...