America, land of the free. America, where free speech isn’t safe, a right to protect yourself isn’t safe, schools aren’t safe, and every...

Comus , a Masque by John Milton. A masque is a type of play that was particularly popular in the years after Oliver Cromwell’s rule over...

The Indigenous cultures of pre-Columbian America exemplifies Thomas Hobbs’ theories about what life would look like without government....

Age of Absolutism 16th - 19th Century     The idea of sovereignty has been skewed over the years. How did this happen? Absolutism....

The High Renaissance ended with the sack of Rome in 1527. A few artistic movements followed this, which still affect art today. The...

Louis XIV      The War of the Spanish Succession was a problem for Europe from 1701-1714. Charles II was the ruler of Spain. Charles II...

An “economic miracle” occurred at the beginning of  the Cold War. America was thriving for a decade or so up until the 1950s. How could a...

Shakespeare sets the stage in the first few scenes of his play Hamlet. Hamlet the king has just died while his son, the protagonist...

In the second half of the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar , Brutus has already aided in Caesar’s death. Now what? Soon after Marc...

Bombing during WWII was happening after China refused to concede unconditionally. The popular opinion is that the bombing going on like...

“Et tu, Brute?” One of the most well-known examples of betrayal is when Julius Caesar’s best friend participated in his murder. What got...

In WWII, Hitler and FDR were obviously on opposing sides, so you'd be surprised to find so many similarities between the two leaders....

Canto ten of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene  is set in the House of Holiness. Una took the Redcrosse Knight there to help him heal...

Most Nazis had a copy of Mein Kampf  in their home, but very few people had actually read the thing, they just took each other’s word for...

In canto 4 of Book 1 of The Faerie Queene  by Edmund Spenser, there is a lot of focus on the seven deadly sins, and the characters...

In Canto 8 of Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queene, the main antagonist Duessa unveils her true form. Stories use appearances to highlight...

Communist Russia, for a long time they believed their ideology was backed up by science, which made them even more steadfast in their...

The Greeks watched the changing of seasons Flowers come and go the sun rise and set The people watched and wanted a reason Dreaming...

Karl Marx used the labor theory of value. The basic idea of this theory was that the value of goods and services should be based on the...

Romanticism. An artistic movement in Europe starting around the late 18th century in contrast to the Neoclassical Era. The Neoclassical...