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What is History? | History Today
WEBAug 8, 2020 · History is the study of people, actions, decisions, interactions and behaviours. It is so compelling a subject because it encapsulates themes which expose the human condition in all of its guises and that resonate throughout time: power, weakness, corruption, tragedy, triumph …. Nowhere are these themes clearer than in political history ...
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire? - History Today
WEBDec 12, 2023 · By 380, a small cult originating near the periphery of the Roman Empire had grown to become its official religion: Christianity. Things would change – but in what ways?
Native Americans and the Federal Government - History Today
WEBAndrew Boxer traces the assimilation policies, indigenous rights, and the changing relationship between the US government and Native Americans from the late 1800s to the present.
Why Were the Jews Persecuted? - History Today
WEBMore sinister, in both cases, religious and racial persecution are a facade for the real reason that the Jews were seen as threatening, namely the fear and threat from an outside group who through history had a position of power that created jealously which turned to violence in troubled times.
The Crusades: A Complete History | History Today
WEBMay 5, 2015 · A comprehensive account of the Crusades, a compelling and controversial topic, whose bitter legacy resonates to this day.
The Man Who Invented Pi - History Today
WEBJul 7, 2009 · In 1706 a little-known mathematics teacher named William Jones first used a symbol to represent the platonic concept of pi, an ideal that in numerical terms can be approached, but never reached. William Jones, mathematician from Wales, 1740. The history of the constant ratio of the circumference to …
George Stephenson's First Steam Locomotive - History Today
WEBJul 7, 2014 · A milestone in railway transportation, George Stephenson's first steam train was unveiled on July 25th, 1814. Within a few years of his death in 1848 George Stephenson was called ‘the father of the railways’, but that accolade has been challenged because there were other engineers involved in the development of …
Baghdad Sacked by the Mongols - History Today
WEBFeb 2, 2008 · Baghdad was the seat of the Abbasid caliphs from the eighth century. In 1248, however, Genghis Khan’s grandson Möngke became great khan of the Mongols and resolved to extend his sway to the Middle East and beyond that, if possible, to Syria and Egypt. Ten years later Mesopotamia was overrun …
The Real Macbeth: King of Scots, 1040-1054 - History Today
WEBThe Real Macbeth: King of Scots, 1040-1054. A study of the hostile legends, immortalized in Shakespeare’s tragic drama, that have gathered around the real historical figure of Macbeth. S hakespeare’s Macbeth, king of scots, was a real person; and the historical facts concerning him, as they are given by writers at all close to his lifetime ...