The Native American democracy that the U.S. founders were most likely to know about was the Iroquois Confederacy. They call themselves the Haudenosaunee, the “people of the longhouse,” because the ...

The theocratic imbalance: When “God” dominated all Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, Europe was ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

There are serious concerns about the “flip the camera” social trend. This trend is described in the media as a form of ...

Explore the 8 rarest historical artifacts that changed history. Learn how ancient relics like the Rosetta Stone and Dead Sea ...

Palantir’s paid fellowship gives high school grads a chance to skip college, gain real-world experience, and possibly land ...

Camille Robcis believes that historical analysis allows us to elucidate contemporary political, economic, social, and ...

The fall also inspired a book, which inspired a game, which inspired the world’s richest man to lash out because his favorite ...

History is the study of change over time, and as The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery shows, the future does not ...

Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to ...

After Brown v. Board struck down school segregation in 1954, Southern leaders fought back with laws, intimidation, school ...

It has never worked, and is not likely to ever work given the catastrophic history this approach has demonstrated. Example ...