history-society

1989 America captures a year of major transition, from geopolitical shifts to everyday cultural change. This evergreen overview explains politics, economics, media, technology,...

Historical sources and modern scholarship agree that Romans staged venationes and naumachiae in Rome and the Colosseum, but they featured land animals and, on rare occasions, st...

22 July 2015 was a date marked by a range of events spanning science, culture, sports, and politics. For historians, astronomers, and enthusiasts, this day offers a snapshot of...

The Gilded Age couples were industrialists, financiers, and heirs whose marriages merged money, politics, and high society in post–Civil War America. This guide examines who t...

Europe’s royal families span constitutional monarchies, residual monarchies, and a few republics with historical titles. This guide focuses on families that hold recognized, c...

Barbarians is an evergreen_explainer term for non Greek speaking peoples perceived as foreign and uncivilized by classical Mediterranean societies. In modern usage the phrase of...