Solidarity
In 1983, the Nobel Peace Prize honored Polish electrician Lech Walesa for leading the nonviolent revolution of "Solidarity." The Nobel committee recognized this movement as a powerful, globe-reshapi...
27 Jan 14min
The Baseball Hall of Fame
In the 1930s, the United States was in the grip of the Great Depression, and baseball was approaching its 100th anniversary. One enterprising business leader in Cooperstown, New York, came up with t...
26 Jan 15min
Sigmund Freud
If you know anything about the field of psychology, you’ve probably heard of Sigmund Freud. Best known as the founder of psychoanalysis, Freud fundamentally changed the field of psychology for decad...
25 Jan 15min
The Clovis First Hypothesis
In 1932, archaeologist Edgar B. Howard made a major discovery near the town of Clovis, New Mexico. He found a stone spear point embedded in the rib of a woolly mammoth, which inspired what became kn...
24 Jan 15min
The Mali Empire
The Mali Empire was one of the largest and most influential states in African history, rising in West Africa during the thirteenth century and reaching its height in the fourteenth. Known for its imm...
23 Jan 15min
The May Fourth Movement
Few dates in China are as significant as May Fourth, which marks two distinct revolutionary periods in modern Chinese history. On May 4th, 1919, student protests erupted in China in response to the...
22 Jan 14min
The Year 2025
525 days ago, I began looking at the state of the world every century, then every fifty years, and finally every twenty-five years as the pace of change accelerated. After almost a year and a half, ...
21 Jan 15min
The Julio-Claudian Dynasty (Encore)
The Roman Empire was ruled by a single family for its first century. The family was actually a merger of two of the most distinguished clans in Roman history. This family included some of the best a...
20 Jan 14min
