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The Olive Branch Petition was a letter adopted by the Second Continental Congress on 5 July 1775 and sent to King George III of Great Britain (r. 1760-1820) in a final attempt at reconciliation in the early months of the American Revolutionary...

Explore how the Women’s Suffrage Parade on Washington in 1913 helped women secure the right to vote in the United States through the 19th amendment. On March 3, 1913, after months of strategic planning and controversy, thousands of women...

The signature page of the Olive Branch Petition of 5 July 1775, the last attempt made by the Second Continental Congress to avoid a war with Great Britain. This is a scan of an original photo from the US Library of Congress.

The Indo-European languages are a family of related languages that today are widely spoken in the Americas, Europe, and also Western and Southern Asia. Just as languages such as Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian are all descended from...

Alabaster bas-relief detail showing an Apkallu holding a flowering branch. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 1, Door A, Room F, the North-West Palace at Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)

Alabaster bas-relief detail showing an Apkallu holding a flowering branch. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 2, Room Z, the North-West Palace at Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)

Alabaster bas-relief detail showing an Apkallu holding a flowering branch. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 8, Room Z, the North-West Palace at Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)

Alabaster bas-relief detail showing an Apkallu holding a flowering branch. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel at Door C (number 2), Room S, the North-West Palace at Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)

The Second Continental Congress was the body of delegates that governed the Thirteen Colonies and, later, the United States during the American Revolutionary War. Between its first session in May 1775 and its disbandment in March 1781, the...

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. (Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right). When it comes to religion, many people...