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… and Marcus Brutus concerning the would-be-assassin’s money lending practices, professor Geisst traces the … key periods of global history, including the Roman era, Medieval Europe, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, as well … law, for instance, usury is now accepted as a standard accompaniment to the modern market economy. Indeed, one of …

… your right, you will encounter the upscale whiskey house, complete with nineteenth-century stone walls that feature the beautifully carved Porter’s … decision to list the building. The Banana Flats once embodied everything that Edinburgh felt was wrong with Leith. …

… September 1959 Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party and Premier of the Soviet Union , arrived in … exhaustion of meals, receptions, speeches, and transit from one site to another, is simply delightful. Nelson and … insisted that the American system was inherently superior to the Soviet one, so it is hardly surprising that …

… separated peoples with the "Central Eurasian Cultural Complex." The crucial element of the Complex is the ruler … into the declining Roman empire. Beckwith describes medieval feudalism, characterized by the special status of the … modernity, such as health and communication technologies. One also wishes he had outlined a more realistic vision for …

… over flat lands, and navigate small, sometimes cobble-stoned streets in villages and towns throughout France. The … cyclists might wear the yellow jersey during the three-week competition, only one will ultimately win it. Cover of the … beyond France’s borders and its neighbors to reach audiences thousands of miles away. No longer exclusively …

… One hundred years ago this month, the Greco-Turkish war erupted. The war resulted in the largest compulsory population exchange in history up to that time (2 … warfare slowed the Greek Army’s progression, and Greek soldiers’ acts of violence against Muslim villagers created …

… this Thanksgiving break, I took advantage of my captive audience to rehearse the impressions I was forming of the book … as a jingoistic celebration of the flag. Perhaps the most compelling stories Eller tells come in the political and … a free glass of Coca-Cola, circa 1888, is believed to be one of the first coupons. Eller writes that Coca-Cola's …

… in biomedicine in recent years. Three of our “deadly companions.” Poliovirus ( left ), Influenza ( center ), and … the leader Pericles. Pericles, an Athenian statesman who died during the Plague of Athens in 429 BCE. The results … industry after only a matter of months. But Siena was just one part of the story. Elsewhere in Europe, the larger-scale …

… from the Nile , Tigris, and Euphrates, to the Rhine, Rhone, Danube, Po, Tiber, and Seine. Campbell sets himself a … religious aura of rivers enhanced the status of riverine communities” (31). Rivers were ascribed human qualities and … over which the Romans consciously sought mastery in one way or another. One of the most potent symbols of their …

… Catholic worldview to a new and radical Protestant one. This shift disenchanted the world and separated the … of magic. Belief in magic and magical occurrences was commonplace before the Reformation and persisted long after … Keith Thomas’ 1971 Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and …

… When Al Gore allegedly claimed he invented the Internet, comedians, political  pundits and Republicans had a field … network, along with the servers, software and other components of what became the Internet, didn't differ from the … the federal government a catalyst for the "information superhighway." While only the 1991 High Performance …

… of well-publicized workplace raids to terrorize immigrant communities. Although immigrants bear the brunt of these … the U.S. military. Those arrested were taken to a decommissioned military facility, and 178 of them were flown to … of history and director of Latin American and Ethnic Studies at Lewis & Clark College. …

… might leave the reader puzzled. Morris would have done well to offer a more transparent methodology and a more … it remains unclear how exactly Morris chose his case studies. Merely examining five actual presidents (Washington, … of the presidency itself has changed, making his comparisons something of an apples and oranges exercise.  …

… who had survived several months in Dachau as a prisoner of war, had certainly earned the nation’s gratitude. … the Department of War assumed that gays would make bad soldiers because of stereotypes of effeminacy. Military men caught committing sodomy faced courts-martial. During World War II, …

… United States. The press, the government, and the medical community claim, often and loudly, that these numbers augur … its related expenses. Neither of these conclusions was foregone; both were expedient answers to social and political pressures. Indeed, …

… afford to do so continued their education, while their compatriots with lesser means often found themselves … forces and our democracy. Fairness, or the lack of it, was one of the principal reasons for political failure of the … service rates by African Americans, from the Buffalo Soldiers of the nineteenth century through World War II, …

… front of the White House in the aftermath of the Majory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting in February 2018. 1. … the British military. Yet, they also inherited the English common law tradition of regulating arms. English statutes … by adopting new inventions without being convinced of their superiority.” The government would not purchase weapons from …

… and electrified those listening back home on Earth: “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Teachers: Use our Edpuzzle. …

… Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, … book from Ohio State historian Lucy Murphy "A case study of one of America's many multi-ethnic border communities, Great … Great Lakes region." [Book description from the publisher's website ] …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like  Origins  – seek to bring history … conversation. This month, our Best in History Online pick comes in the form of a collaboration of historians from … major historic disasters on a timeline. As stated on their website,  DisasterHistory.org  “grew out of a research …