Many Ancient Greek fortifications connected a city to another site – a citadel or a port. The...
History
The geological history of the Earth can be broadly classified into two periods: the Precambrian supereon and...
The Earth has been through many changes during its existence. Introduction Modern geologists and geophysicists consider the...
Investigating the intertwined categories of modern space and disaster. Originally published by the Harvard Map Collection, republished...
A history of cartographers toying with the relationship between touch and sight. Originally published by the Harvard...
Australia’s Foy & Gibson department store once dominated Melbourne, with showrooms, factories and warehouses spread over 500,000...
A stealthy group of skiing commandos took out a crucial Nazi facility and stopped Hitler from getting...
Groups planning a coup of some kind had existed in the German Army and the military intelligence...
Introduction The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket riot or Haymarket massacre) on Tuesday May 4,...
The immediate effect on Ireland was devastating, and its long-term effects proved immense. Introduction The Great Famine...
The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World...
Besides terrible plagues and epidemics that seemed to spring out of nowhere with alarming regularity, there were...
Largely self-taught, Adams learned to harness the communicative power of photography during his years as a marketing...
Introduction Visual Culture is human culture based on visual media — pictures, sculpture, and (sometimes) dance— as...
The events in Bleeding Kansas directly foreshadowed the American Civil War. Introduction Bleeding Kansas, sometimes referred to...
Introduction The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles arguing for the ratification of the United...
As the British expanded their presence in India, the Marathas represented a major threat to their territorial...
From a semi-nomadic tribal society to an agrarian-based society with a vast network of trade and a...
The Empire, for much of its history, can be seen as the Christian equivalent of the Muslim...
From Clovis’s conquest of Gaul to Charlemagne’s coronation, the Frankish realm transformed post-Roman western Europe while repeatedly...
Sacrifices of various types were central to the Temple’s function. Introduction Also known as Solomon’s Temple, the...
Human remains, the “Palestine Man”, found south of Lake Tiberias in the Zuttiyeh Cave, date back as...
If you dig deep enough, you can find some truth to legends and creation stories. Introduction Myths...
Mesopotamian myths appear to have had a more practical purpose and were used to cure and prevent...
A number of freedoms have been endorsed within countercultural communities. Introduction Counterculture is a term used to...
Jeffersonian scholarship is a Hydra’s head, mostly because we make it so. Political discrepancies between Thomas Jefferson...
Aborigines were hunter gatherers – not cultivators – so there was little intentional interference with natural selection...
The hoop is symbolic of “the never-ending circle of life.” Introduction Medicine wheels, or sacred hoops, are...
The Athenian treasury was the first Panhellenic sanctuary that was dedicated by Athenians. Introduction The Athenian Treasury...
Discussions of economics have existed since ancient times but it was not a separate discipline until the...