Normanness

Unable to deter the Soviets, France and Britain finally raised a military relief force, too small and too late to impact the outcome...

In 1991, Ukraine became an independent country and the world’s third largest nuclear power...

Indians have remade London in various ways over the last five hundred years...

By the early nineteenth century, the practice of age-naming was commonplace...

Almost everything​ we know about medieval culture is written on the skins of dead animals...

President John F. Kennedy read The Guns of August shortly before the Cuban Missile Crisis began...

Though the twenty-four-hour news cycle has done much to stoke our contemporary ideological divides, the roots of this phenomenon can be situated centuries ago...

Aristotle was rarely puzzled, but even he had to admit that lobsters were weird...

More than seven decades have passed since the end of World War II and what was once part of lived communal knowledge has gradually fallen away...

Celebrants added nuts, strings of popcorn or beads, oranges, lemons, candies and home-made trinkets. However, widely-read newspapers and ladies' magazines raised the standards for ornamentation...

Nietzsche – who had studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig – once argued that the Germans were becoming overwhelmed with the sheer volume of antiquarian knowledge...

Eco-ontologists in Japan had long regarded coal-mining activities in Japan by Westerners as an interruption of the human-heaven relationship...

Wine growers, merchants and industrialists worked feverishly to rehabilitate the beverage's downtrodden reputation...

Lakota power grew from the nation’s cultural adaptability, its people’s willingness - indeed, eagerness - to embrace change, and from its leaders’ political flexibility...

As a test, thirty painted foxes were set loose on a weekend...

Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement stands at the intersection of questions regarding Black German activism in the post-1970 era...