The first signs of the Panic of 1837 came on 10th May that year when the Bank of New York announced it would no longer accept specie payments. The declaration essentially meant that the fina... Read more
Archaeologists from the University of Cardiff have revealed for the first the full scale of a 2,500-year-old Egyptian catacomb in Saqqara, the necropolis of Memphis. The tomb was first disco... Read more
A classics professor from Stanford University has suggested that ancient Greece, unlike its contemporaries, was not only a cultural but also an economic success. Josiah Ober’s findings are d... Read more
In a speech delivered to Harvard University on 5th June, 1947, US Secretary of State George C. Marshall laid out a plan for a European self help program sponsored by the United States. The s... Read more