African Americans After the Civil War | History Today
Before 1861 the vast majority of African Americans had been slaves and had no legal rights of which to speak. The formal abolition of slavery in 1865 was clearly a landmark in the progress of black Americans, but once freed they wanted land, education, and the vote, essentially in …
Why Were the Jews Persecuted? | History Today
T hroughout the history of mankind, no group has been more victimised than the Jewish people. Today they are remembered for being mass-murdered in Hitler's death camps, yet their persecution goes back thousands of years. Why? In order to understand how Hitler was to use the Jews as scapegoats, we must first understand the latent hatred that Hitler was able to tap into against the Jewish people ...
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Did the Romans Invent Christmas? - History Today
Dec 12, 2009 · I t was a public holiday celebrated around December 25th in the family home. A time for feasting, goodwill, generosity to the poor, the exchange of gifts and the decoration of trees. But it wasn’t Christmas. This was Saturnalia, the pagan Roman winter solstice festival.
The US-Cuba Embargo Beyond the Cold War | History Today
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire? - History Today
Peter Sarris is Professor of Late Antique, Medieval and Byzantine Studies at Trinity College, Cambridge and author of Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (Basic Books, 2023). Over the course of the fifth century, the Western Roman Empire fragmented into a series of post-Roman kingdoms largely dominated by ‘barbarian’ rulers.
The Real Macbeth: King of Scots, 1040-1054 - History Today
A study of the hostile legends, immortalized in Shakespeare’s tragic drama, that have gathered around the real historical figure of Macbeth. Shakespeare’s Macbeth, king of scots, was a real person; and the historical facts concerning him, as they …
Christmas in 19th Century America - History Today
Dec 12, 1995 · he Christmas that Americans celebrate today seems like a timeless weaving of custom and feeling beyond the reach of history. Yet the familiar mix of carols, cards, presents, trees, multiplicities of Santas and holiday neuroses that have come to define December 25th in the United States is little more than a hundred years old.
Behind Closed Doors: Women and the Inquisition - History Today
Sep 9, 2023 · A prisoner of the Inquisition in this imagined scene by Jean Louis Desprez, c. 1789. Albertina. Public Domain. I t is a familiar image: a woman in distress, surrounded by men examining her soul in a dimly lit inquisitorial chamber. Fearing torture, she confesses to crimes she never committed.
The Pilgrim Settlers Before the Mayflower - History Today
Feb 2, 2020 · T his year, the US looks back four centuries to an intrepid band of refugees making a perilous home in New England. The Mayflower pilgrims had been outlaws in England, members of an underground church known as the Brownists or Separatists. They believed church should be a voluntary community rather than a compulsory state religion. For their refusal to submit to the Church of England they had ...