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As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible.

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Two rare Roman cavalry swords discovered in a Gloucestershire field have sparked the excavation of a previously unknown Iron ...

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire. She tells Jacobin how members of the laboring classes in ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have unearthed what may be an ancient villa they believe belonged to the first Roman ...