The history of elections spans thousands of years, from early rudimentary forms of communal decision-making to the complex, formalized processes of contemporary representative democracies. Across much ...

Lying approximately 7 miles from the northeastern shores of Venezuela, the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has a ...

The second millennium, from a Christian perspective, is arguably best known for the Reformation and the religious conflict it caused. Most Christians know names such as Martin Luther and John Calvin ...

Ancient Mesopotamia was home to diverse peoples with different origins, cultures, and languages. But, over the course of two millennia, the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Elamites all built ...

Between 1960 and 1968, the United States steadily increased its involvement in the Vietnam War, peaking at over 500,000 US troops stationed in South Vietnam. Economically, America’s lengthiest war, ...

If captured and given a choice of life or death, most chose life as double agents. The quest to obtain information led all to ...

The Flood Tablet, Tablet 11 of the Gilgamesh epic, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 7th century BC; with The Palette of Narmer, 1st Dynasty; and The Rosetta Stone, 196 BC The alphabet we use to write today in the ...

However, in 1852, Black Ships arrived in the bay of the city of Edo (modern Tokyo) and the U.S. navy forced the shogunate to finally open itself up for trade. For the first time in modern history, ...

Three decades after Christ’s crucifixion, Emperor Nero began the Roman Empire’s persecution of the early Christians. It all culminated with executions in Nicomedia almost 300 years later. Emperor ...

The Homeric Hymn narrates the founding story for the Mysteries as well. Demeter, disguised as a human, arrives at Eleusis while searching for her daughter, and the city takes her in as a nurse. She ...

Each constellation in the ancient Greek sky was associated with a specific mythological story, often featuring gods, heroes, or mythical creatures. These stories were woven into the fabric of Greek ...

Ganymede (or Ganymedes) was a young man from Troy. His beauty was unparalleled, and for that reason, Zeus abducted and brought him to Olympus to serve as his cupbearer and lover. Ganymede’s myth is an ...