History

In the late 1950s, Vietnam was only marginally important in the United States' public discussion. The media landscape, consisting of newspapers, magazines, radio and television, hardly paid any attention to the conflict in the Far East. [...]

The course of the battle in the Teutoburg Forest is one of the darkest chapters in Roman military history. It was a turning point that significantly influenced the fate of Roman expansion in Germania. This event that took place over... [...]

The religious landscape of antiquity was characterized by a variety of beliefs, practices and cults. In the midst of this diversity, early Christianity and the so-called mystery cults developed, which with their different access conditions, rites... [...]

By the time the emperor Galerius's tolerance edict was issued in 311 AD, the Christian religion was in an extremely precarious situation. She was little more than a... [...]

The autumn of 1989 marks a decisive turning point in the history of Europe and especially in the history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). For years, the GDR was characterized by political repression, growing displeasure among the population... [...]

Despite the international efforts and the adoption of the so-called Geneva agreements, which ended the war between France and the Vietnamese independence movements in 1954, these agreements were not able to influence the deeply rooted beliefs of the Vietnamese population. the... [...]

In the Roman city, the Forum and the Curia were the central points of contact for public and semi-public life. While the forum served as a place for social exchange, the curia was a semi-public area in which... [...]

The Vietnam War is now considered one of the bloodiest and most momentous conflicts of the 20th century. It was the result of decades of political, social and military developments that were deep in the country's history and in the global... [...]

The history of drug policy in the United States is complex and characterized by numerous political, social and economic influences. The infamous "War on Drugs", the early 1970s under then President Richard Nixon... [...]