When Voltaire said “The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire,” he highlighted a quirk of our psychology: we're rather slow to update our first impressions.

The Roman conquest of Greece has been an integral part of the long and rich history of this proud nation in the Eastern ...

In theory, putting down the rebels of the First Jewish Revolt should have been easy for the mighty Roman empire. But ...

This video was produced in collaboration with OER Project. OER Project offers free, comprehensive, and fully supported social studies curricula for middle- and high-school teachers and their students.

Don't know your Latin from your Latium? Never heard of a Mamertine before? Fear not — this is Rome's entire history, start to ...

A study based on tree rings claimed that droughts played a role in events that led to the Roman withdrawal from Britain, but ...

When we think of Rome and the Pope, we don't necessarily think of a Greek Pope. However, many Popes in the past had been of ...

Archaeologists in the Netherlands recently discovered a sizable conversation starter tucked away in a forgotten storage box.

The Christian celebration of Easter itself supplanted a history of pagan celebrations. The name Easter comes from the Nordic ...

Invasions of ancient Persia were always daunting tasks. They often led to disaster. In the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, the Persian empire came to dominate a vast and varied geography with Iran at its ...

America was born in revolt against a mad king who forced a tax on tea. The exit of King George III and the formation of the ...

Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s line that “the arc of the moral universe is ...