Both the Georgian and Victorian eras were marked with significant changes, both socially and politically. The Georgians...
History
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...
White citizens in the South organized a “Massive Resistance” campaign against integration. A Segregated Society An 1896...
De facto segregation continues today because of both contemporary behavior and the historical legacy of de jure...
Slavery was abolished over 150 years ago in the United States, but the hard work of achieving...
Introduction From the start of European expansion into the Atlantic world, Britain fought other powers for territory...
The worldwide movement against slavery (still not entirely eliminated) can be seen as a coming of age...
Almost all peoples have been both slaves and slaveholders at some point in their histories. Introduction Various...
Colonial powers through the ages have been masters of appropriating the native cultures of foreign lands, waiting...
The doctrine of “state action” is integral to American Constitutional law. Originally published by CALI eLangdell Press...
In some cases, the explicit goal of these technologies is to deny opportunities to those deemed unfit....
While the creature’s name remained simple, its reputation soon grew extremely complex. This article, The Beast of...
Elizabeth I engage in a memorable invention of herself as a legend in her own lifetime. Introduction...
In Cicero’s Rome, the government eventually came under the control of a well-trained ruling class. Introduction As...
Dictators were frequently appointed from the earliest period of the Republic down to the Second Punic War....