Herod was a client king of Rome, but his route to the throne was not a straightforward...
History
50 years ago there was no expectation of where the achievement would lead, and the real impact...
As the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last. That problem led to the...
Their shaky alliance would steadily deteriorate, each of them waging a war of pernicious propaganda. By Jesse...
The came about, at least in part, due to the dynamics in the relationship between three forceful...
Understanding their population has helped us to understand what it is to be human. By Anna GoldfieldArchaeologist...
Paleoanthropologist Carol Ward explains how walking upright marked a milestone in hominin history. By Dr. Tom GarlinghouseArchaeologist/Anthropologist...
Education has been around for several centuries. Since the dawn of mankind, education has evolved and developed...
Reconstruction-era governments did make genuine gains in rebuilding Southern states devastated by the war. By Tina Ulrich,...
While the Southern army dwindled, the Union simply mustered new armies and tried again. By Tina Ulrich,...
By the end of the thirteenth century the social context for the abandonment of infants and children...
Two different perceptions of the sin of overeating in the Middle Ages. Gluttony—overindulging in food or drink—was...
Amazons of legend and very real Scythian tribes were mentioned in the same breath in ancient Greece....
In mythology, the Amazons were daughters of Ares, the god of war. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction In...
The measles virus probably descended from the ancestors of the modern canine distemper and/or rinderpest viruses. By...
The city-state of Sparta, and much of the eastern Mediterranean, was also struck by the disease. Introduction...
He looted the city and burned it to the ground. Introduction In the year 330 BCE Alexander...
It was the capital from the reign of Darius I (the Great, r. 522-486 BCE) until its...
The movement toward oligarchy was led by a number of prominent and wealthy Athenians. Introduction The Athenian...
Athenian democracy was indeed a direct democracy, but not for everybody. By Georgios Mavropalias A sequence of...
The winning supporters of ratification of the Constitution were called Federalists and the opponents were called Anti-Federalists....
By 1796 politics in every state was nearly monopolized by two parties, with party newspapers and caucuses...
Examining the type of anesthesia and techniques employed to prepare patients for invasive surgery in ancient Rome....
Treatments became more well known, and surgery became more sophisticated. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Roman medicine was...
Understanding history can deepen our sense of what it means to be human and how fragile our...
What caused the rise and then collapse 2,600 years ago of this vast empire centered on Mesopotamia?...
Works by artists like Velasco, Troya, Chartrand, and Oller offer an alternative to depictions by foreign artists....
By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction For the Incas finely worked and highly decorative textiles came to symbolize both...
One of the reasons humans prefer an organized government is that we’ve had them for thousands of...
Banking was highly developed and subject to Roman Law, and money deposits were to be safeguarded and...