Read time ca. 8 minutes Opera emerged in Italy at the end of the 16th century, blending music, theater, and visual spectacle into [...]

Read time ca. 3 minutes In 14th century Venice, wealthy merchants could purchase special trading privileges that granted them residency rights in foreign [...]

Read time ca. 8 minutes In 218 BC, during the early years of the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca undertook [...]

Read time ca. 4 minutes In 1928, a simple observation in a London laboratory revolutionized medicine and forever changed the way humanity combats [...]

Read time ca. 4 minutes Spanning the narrowest part of the English Channel, La Manche in French, between Folkestone in the United Kingdom [...]

Read time ca. 4 minutes Throughout American history, there have been moments that defined the country’s character and shaped its identity. The defense [...]

Read time ca. 5 minutes The Golden Age of Hollywood is a period that generally spans from the late 1920s with the advent [...]

Read time ca. 4 minutes Emerging in the late 1940s and flourishing throughout the 1950s, the Beat Generation was a literary and cultural [...]

Read time ca. 7 minutes The causes of the Battle of Hastings were a dynastic conflict which arose after England’s King Edward the [...]

Read time ca. 5 minutes The Gothic architecture which emerged in the 12th century, revolutionized the way buildings were designed, constructed, and experienced [...]

Read time ca. 6 minutes The seeds of the Great Schism were sown centuries before 1054 AD, rooted in theological, political, linguistic, and [...]

Read time ca. 5 minutes Electronic music has transformed the global music landscape, revolutionizing how sound is created, produced, and experienced. From its [...]