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As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), written in 1599 and likely first performed that same year. Indeed, it is thought to be the inaugural show performed...

The Union as it was, wood engraving by Thomas Nast, 1874. Illustrated here by Thomas Nast are two clasping figures, members of White supremacist paramilitary organizations, standing astride a shield depicting a terrorized...

The god Hymen marries the four couples at the end of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy As You Like It (1599), drawing by Thomas Stothard, late 18th or early 19th century. Folger Shakespeare Library...

In which John Green teaches you, at long last, about the most exceptional bunch of empire-building nomads in the history of the world, the Mongols! How did the Mongols go from being a relatively...

Ancient democracy was invented at the beginning of the 5th century BCE at almost the same time in both Athens and Rome. The word democracy comes from the Greek word demokratia with demos meaning...

In which John Green teaches you about the European Renaissance. European learning changed the world in the 15th and 16th century, but was it a cultural revolution, or an evolution? We'd argue that any...

The discovery of the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secrets of Ancient Egypt with the Ancient Greek and Demotic texts being the key to translating the Hieroglyphics for the first time. So, if you want...

In which John Green explores exactly when Rome went from being the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. Here's a hint: it had something to do with Julius Caesar, but maybe less...

Before the Roman Empire, there was the Roman Republic, but how did the Roman Republic begin? Before Julius Caesar, Augustus and Antony and Cleopatra there was the Roman Republic...

Get to know the history of Juneteenth, a commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War. – At the end of the Civil War, though slavery...