History

The human species has long used superior cognitive abilities to survive and thrive over predators and prey in a variety of environments. Nearly as ...

Unlike John Steinbeck’s novel, the film adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath depicts a world in which survival is a triumph in and of ...

Much in the collective memory of World War II has reinvented the war as a variety of things that it is not. Nevertheless, it ...

After World War II, global politics were thrown into upheaval. Former alliances turned into staunch adversaries. Old enemies became new friends. In the United ...

The terrorist group, Hezbollah, is a force that has persisted for decades and survives through tactics and cooperation by operating in and developing military ...

Today, the novel stands as the opera of the literary mind, a vast chasm of possibility for development and investigation. Born into the time ...

There were a variety of serious and important errors made by the Spanish in their governance of the New World that eventually led to ...

Following World War II, cinema began to shift its tone from cheery and shallow to gloomy and deep.  The dark undertones of American theatre ...

Jacob Riis’s historically significant work, “How the Other Half Lives” (1890) was an extensive study of a population that had up until then been ...

The Battle of Gonzales marked the beginning of military developments which started the Texas Revolution. The Battle of Alamo, a 13-day-long siege, resulted in ...