As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

Herodotus (c. 484 - 425 BC, ancient Greek historian), Reading His History to the Assembled Greeks. He was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a ...

Historians like Tacitus, Josephus, and Pliny the Elder had a primary goal: to preserve Rome’s legacy. This bordered on propaganda, of course, but they would analyze the actions of emperors and major ...

Roman historian Tacitus' ancient manuscripts called Annals have surfaced online. They discuss the persecution of Christians and mention Jesus Christ. Tacitus references Jesus' crucifixion by ...

Statue of Tacitus, author of Germania, outside the Vienna Parliament. Credit: Walter Maderbacher CC BY-SA 3.0 In the manuscript, the Roman historian wrote an account of Germania (modern day Germany): ...

The country’s leader, Xi Jinping, may wonder whether a warning he gave in 2014, less than a year and a half after he took power, is gaining relevance. “The ancient Roman historian, Tacitus ...

Alliances of Germanic tribes famously fought back against the Roman Empire as it attempted to expand its borders around the beginning of the millennium. The earliest information on Germanic peoples ...

The historian Tacitus refers to Quirinius being honoured with a triumph, fitting the inscription. Furthermore, Quirinius became the proconsul of Asia in about 3-1 BCE. And finally, as we have seen, he ...

Spaniards have somehow lagged in this tedious pursuit. Witness the fact that there is no outstanding Spanish historian that can be compared with the Roman Tacitus.

Around 104 C.E., Pliny the Younger sat down to write a letter. “Though my shocked soul recoils, my tongue shall tell,” he told the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus. Then, Pliny began to describe what ...

Tacitus is the great historian of imperial Rome. His writing is beautiful, unsettling, extraordinarily persuasive. We know many of his likes and dislikes about people and politics, but facts about ...