Long 19th Century (1789–1914)

6+ hour, 51+ min ago   (140+ words) History is not simply a collection of facts about the past. Historians must decide which questions to ask, which sources to use, and how …...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (145+ words) Empire examined Ibn Khaldun’s ideas to establish where and how nations tend to repeat themselves, and where lessons can be learned. He specifically mentioned the Scottish 18th century historian Alexander Fraser Tyler who claimed that democracies follow a predictable cyclical pattern,…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (491+ words) On the afternoon of 16 July 1979, in the northern Nicaraguan city of Estelí, a young man named Pablo Aráuz found an empty Pepsi bottle, filled it with petrol, lit it and threw it at the local headquarters of the National Guard....