Wednesday, April 16, 2025

People and Ideas on the Move: 2000 B.C. – 250 B.C.

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At various times in history, large groups of people migrate — move to a new place to live. These migrations — called Völkerwanderungen by s...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Early River Valley Civilizations: 3500 B.C. – 450 B.C.

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Early civilizations began near rivers, where there was a source of water for agriculture, a source of fish, and the possibility of barges fo...
Friday, November 1, 2024

Rebooting the Concentration Camps: How the Soviets Continued the Holocaust

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Students are familiar with the basic facts of the Holocaust: how the Nazis forced millions of Jews into concentration camps, and then murder...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Trends in European Car Manufacturing from 2006 to 2024: Eastern Europe Emerges

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Following the collapse of Soviet Socialism in eastern Europe in 1990-1991, the economies in each of the individual nations — Poland, East Ge...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Reasons to Be Cheerful — Part 6

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The psychological configuration of the human mind is such that it has a preference for bad news. Swedish scholar Hans Rosling discovered tha...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

The Historiography of Islam in the 1700s: Explaining the Eighteenth Century

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Islam, as a socio-political movement, has organized itself in a variety of associations over the centuries, sometimes successively, and some...
Monday, August 14, 2023

Islamophobia and Islamophilia — Two Problematic Words and Their Histories

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French author Pascal Bruckner explores some of the vocabulary which has been used to analyze Islam and its relation to the world. Much of th...