[카테고리:] History
How Climate Change and Disease Helped The Fall of Rome
The Course of Empire / Thomas Cole At some time or another, every historian of Rome has been asked to say where we are, today, on Rome’s cycle of decline. Historians might squirm at such attempts to use the past but,…
Drunk on Genocide How the Nazis Celebrated Murdering Jews
Defendants in the docls during the Nuremburg Trials. In the front row, from left to right: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Heß, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel (in second row, from left to right): Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz…
Why the Nazis Studied American Race Laws For Inspiration
Top left: Nathan Bedford Forrest, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan; Top right: Hitler announcing the declaration of war against the United States to the Reichstag on 11 December 1941; Bottom left: Members of the Ku Klux Klan…
What Happened When a Muslim Student Went to Cambridge in 1816
A drawing of Mirza Salih later on in his life. Two hundred years ago, there arrived in London the first group of Muslims ever to study in Europe. Dispatched by the Crown Prince of Iran, their mission was to survey…
How Slaveholders in the Caribbean Maintained Control
It is no surprise that the whip is synonymous with New World slavery: its continual crack remained an audible threat to enslaved workers to keep at their work, reminding them that their lives and bodies were not their own, and…
Dont Let the Rise of Europe Steal World History
Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, Tsar Ferdinand of the Bulgarians, King Manuel II of Portugal and the Algarve, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Prussia, King George I of the Hellenes and King Albert I…
How Pandemics Fuel the Rise of Large Companies
In June 1348, people in England began reporting mysterious symptoms. They started off as mild and vague: headaches, aches, and nausea. This was followed by painful black lumps, or buboes, growing in the armpits and groin, which gave the disease its…