History

Charlemagne is often credited with leading a renaissance in culture, arts, literature and religion during his rule over the Carolingian Empire that lasted until ...

General Thomas J. Jackson, respectfully known to history as Stonewall, was one of the most noteworthy heroes of the Civil War. He served the ...

Although clothing serves a functional purpose, in that it's used to protect the body from the elements, it is not a value-neutral commodity. Clothes ...

Ideas of freedom for the two opposing forces, the Union and the Confederacy, were markedly different from one another. In many ways, the notion ...

The civil war that plagued El Salvador with violence in the 1970s and 1980s is perhaps best remembered by one, the single event that ...

John Locke was a British philosopher and writer who lived in Britain and Europe during one of the most tumultuous periods in European history: ...

The precise reasoning behind Prince Vladimir’s choice to make Christianity the official religion of Russia is unknown. However, there are a number of important ...

The instability that plagued Mexico in the half-century following independence had a variety of disparate causes. Factors that led to the political chaos that ...

While American society is far from perfect, and socioeconomic and racial injustices sadly remain a significant aspect of our culture, amazing strides have been ...

The expansion of Islam in the seventh and eighth centuries was astonishingly rapid. Islam arrived in Asia, Africa, and Europe on the point of ...