Thea Baldrick

The Irish Potato Famine was a disaster of unprecedented proportions. From 1845 to 1849, a minimum of one million people died.

The confessional movement, led by the poets W.D. Snodgrass, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath, began in April 1959. Its influence on current culture is immeasurable.

Charles Darwin was well aware that both he and his family would be lambasted because of On the Origin of Species; so what drove him to write it at all?

Despite being laced with magical elements, Anne Sexton’s fairy tale poems create a world not so very different from our own.

As a leading woman in the confessional movement, Anne Sexton’s poetry connected to many people, but running parallel to her art was a life fraught with constant threats of disconnection.

The advanced medicine of ancient Egypt included effective wound care, contraceptives, more drugs than a modern pharmacy, accurate diagnoses of heart disease, and more.

Mounting evidence suggests that the plague may have initiated Akhenaten’s conversion to monotheism when he became pharaoh of Egypt in 1341 BCE.

In an effort to stem the plague sweeping through his land, Mursili II, king of the Hittites, issued a series of wrenching prayers to an apparently deaf pantheon of gods.