As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

In a 1993 episode of The Simpsons, Lisa is in class, daydreaming of a headset that can take her back in time to witness the ...

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Whether it our own family legacy or the history of the world, there has never been a more important time to remember the ...

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Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of ...