Learn why blindly relying on historical records of seismic events without confirmation can lead to an incorrect ...

For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful ...

In this lesson, students learn about the Temperance Movement and New York in the 1890s by watching an excerpt from the Bootlegger’s Notebook, investigation and examining period images, including ...

In this lesson, students watch an excerpt from the Nazi Spy Toys investigation in which they learn about Dr. Fred W. Thomas, a German-American who was accused of being a Nazi Spy during World War II.

History 216—Artifacts of American History uses material objects as primary sources to learn about the past. The term “artifact’ describes an object, often a tool or an ornament, that reflects the ...

The Journal of African History (JAH) publishes articles and book reviews ranging widely over the African past, from the late Stone Age to the present. In recent years increasing prominence has been ...

Raphaëlle Goyeau receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between the University of East Anglia and the British Library. In 1534, ...

The transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age was apparently accompanied by severe droughts between 1302 and 1307 in Europe. Researchers write that the 1302-07 weather patterns ...