1. Dante Alighieri
(Free Content/Historical Images)

... in Rome.    To view image Dante. (This artwork was created using the death mask of Dante.) DO NOT license, sell, or redistribute the whole or parts of this image without the author's written permission, ...

2. Alger Hiss, Richard Nixon, and the Devolution of Discourse
(Free Content/American History)

... that people might think capitalism was on its deathbed; it had not been so long since the Industrial Revolution and no one knew whether the economy would recover. It made sense for people to look for answers ...

3. Hatchetation Hellcat: Carry Nation, Anti-Liquor Activist
(Free Content/Biographies)

... for the needy. Haunted by various family trials, Carry gradually came to believe that liquor was to blame for not only her first husband’s death but all her other problems. With her cause defined, she ...

4. LITTLE BIG MAN - THE LIFE OF JEAN-ROCH COIGNET
(Free Content/European History)

... the wolf was pulling at the other end in a bizarre life and death struggle. Fortunately, two trained dogs took the wolf down, but here is an early indication of the pluckiness and toughness of this peasant ...

5. The Patricide of John Kewish
(Free Content/Biographies)

... a complete shambles from start to finish. Reports of the trial suggest the death was a clear case of premeditated patricide. But was it? Although John was found guilty of murder, many Manxmen felt it should ...

6. Dolley Payne Todd Madison - American Icon – (1768 - 1849)
(Free Content/Biographies)

... encountered financial difficulties after Mr. Payne’s business failed and also at his death. Todd helped the Payne family members sell the business with a small profit and even used his own funds to support ...

7. Defeat Without Surrender: The Public Image of Jefferson Davis and the Reunification of America.
(Free Content/American History)

... with his lack of remorse. The death of Jefferson Davis evoked a range of feelings in America, from loss and mourning in the South to happiness and gratification in the North. The range of responses to ...

8. Frederick Bailey Deeming – Was he Jack the Ripper?
(Free Content/Biographies)

... apparently suffered a mental breakdown on her death in 1875. His mother was a Sunday school teacher; she was also so puritanical that Deeming became obsessed with ideas of sin and punishment. It is likely ...

9. Preview of Thomas Wentworth
(Preview/British History)

... to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government against law.” (Watson 108). This charge led to his death in 1641.  Why was Thomas Wentworth impeached and executed? To answer this question one must ...

10. The Dzhurma Incident.
(Free Content/Russian History)

... was not far (no more than 200 miles) from the wintering place of the Dzhurma and its 12,000 prisoners doomed to death from cold and starvation. Moscow feared that in the course of saving the heroes of ...

11. Wet Nursing in Early Modern England.
(Free Content/British History)

... III and Henri IV  preached the magic of breast milk and the breast. There was no class division with illness and death. Wet nursing spanned the classes with the only difference being choice. For the ...

12. How Far did the Vikings Travel?
(Free Content/European History)

... raids, inflicting hardship and death throughout the regions invaded by the Vikings.  One infamous event was recorded in a poem by Abbo a monk from Germain-des-Pres, titled the ‘Battles for Paris’.   ...

13. A Short Biography of Johann Sebastian Bach
(Free Content/Biographies)

... circumstances friendlier to his ambitions. The final period of his life Leipzig was a bustling city with a thriving commerce and a reputable university. With the death of Johann Kuhnau, Cantor ...

14. The Siege and Battle of Vienna in 1683
(Free Content/European History)

... them to "submission to the will of god", i.e. Islam (Bush). After his death in 623, his followers carried on his mission as far as persuasion and/or holy warfare would allow them. The Roman Catholic Church, ...

15. The Ditchley Portrait Explained
(Free Content/British History)

... in as his mistress after his wife’s death (Amussen, Seeff. Attending to Early Modern Women. p. 40.) In view of Anne’s reputation and Sir Henry’s exalted office, Elizabeth, who was particularly wary of ...

16. Burying the Dead and the History of Funerals
(Free Content/British History)

Undertakers, Funerals and Burials in English History A Dignified Procession 'At birth we cry; a death we see why'. Bulgarian proverb. The concept of death can be confusing to say the least. On the ...

17. Brief History of the Legal System
(Free Content/Crime)

... were presented with serious offenders which ultimately could be sentenced the death penalty. For example, during the Chelmsford Assize of 1585, Thomas Gawdy and Serjeant Francis Gawdy tried Richard Norry. ...

18. Witchcraft and Woman Healers
(Free Content/Crime)

... over life and death, mad or sane, fertile or infertile, was taken away from women in England long before the 16th and 17th Century. Like all key areas of society, a monopoly was formed and controlled by ...