Many Iberian colonists in the viceroyalties of New Spain (Mexico) and La Plata (Argentina) practiced cattle ranching. Both sides practiced branding and rode horses to control their herds. Many of the colonists, and their breeding stock, were Andalucian in origin. During the colonial period, how ...

A recent Economist article claims: As Nikolai Bukharin, a close Lenin ally, was told during his own trial, his job was “to confess and repent, not to argue”. I've searched without success for a primary source of this. It doesn't appear in any translations of his trial that I could find (a...

One of the more famous and certainly curious decisions at the Second Council of the Lateran was a ban on using missile troops against Christians. Specifically, Canon 29 states that: We prohibit under anathema that murderous art of crossbowmen and archers, which is hateful to God, to be employ...

This morning I found this interesting question from verified Twitter user Iyad el-Baghdadi. Transcription: Question to experts (and good researchers). My impression is that parts of the classical Islamic world were highly literate (by the standards of their time): When did the Islamic ...

In the roman republican times were debts and loans taken into account by the censors when calculating the worth of a citizen's property? If yes, how were these checked?

What's the earliest text written by an American recognizing that native speakers from another area had a different American English accent?