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Political intrigue and espionage are nothing new. But in the days before high-tech spy gear, the work of spies looked far different…

Movies like 12 Years a Slave give us a good idea of what the desperate escape to freedom must have been like…

Today, many of us associate December with traditions and festivities that seem like an integral part of Christmas. However, this wasn’t always…

Manners and Tone of Good Society (1879), the seminal guide to Victorian dining, outlined how to navigate around the vast array of…

The roots of American racism run deep. The country’s troubled history of infighting over the ideal that all men are created equal…

There are instances when conflict arises not between states, but within a particular country. There are different reasons why civil wars happen.…

The Renaissance wasn’t just a revolution in the arts, but also the sciences, particularly mathematics. There was a marked proliferation of mathematical…

Beginning roughly around 1967, Hollywood began changing its order of operations, focusing more on films that favored younger audiences and were more…

In modern times we commonly refer to the reign of Queen Victoria as the Victorian Era in England. That era stretched from…

In bygone days, before modern technology, people had to rely more on their imaginations to come up with entertaining pastimes. This often…