History

Human behavior around drinking alcohol has been detailed for millennia. Archaeological digs at Pompeii, Gobekli Tepe, Petra, El Zotz and other ancient sites have ...

In his book Are we Rome, author Cullen Murphy compares and contrasts the fundamental composition of Ancient Rome and present-day America.  Through his comprehensive ...

The matter of euthanasia or doctor-assisted suicide is often boiled down to a matter of ethics, but simplification does not do justice to this ...

In two speeches delivered between 1959 and 1960, Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo, proclaimed his vision for the ...

The Japanese decision to attack Pearl Harbor is described by Bruce Russet as an act of irrationality due to the difference in relative power ...

When Winston Churchill wanted to end the First World War early he thought that creating a new war front at Gallipoli would cause the ...

In “Dresden 1945: Reality, History and Memory,” Tammi Davis Biddle sets out to debunk some of the most famously fabricated myths of World War ...

Sojourner Truth, born Isabella Baumfree, crusaded for the rights of African-Americans, slaves, and women. Her life is described in “The Narrative of Sojourner Truth,” ...

Indian nationalism encompasses various political, social ideological and economic forces which provided a motor for the Indian independence movement during the nineteenth and early ...

Christian Orthodox churches today still uphold the residuals of male dominance that, of course, pre-date the Byzantine era. However, what the Byzantine era actually ...