In ancient times, the Romans engaged in enormous building programs, particularly in Rome itself, which they largely financed by raiding the provinces for tribute. Rome started to fall when the ...

The Roman Republic thrived for decades based on similar principles to America's, but then it failed. What can we learn from its mistakes? The Roman Republic inspired many of the delegates who traveled ...

Democracies are notoriously fragile. Athenians who lived some two generations after fending off Persian invaders in 480 BC would affirm as much. After a meteoric rise to superpower status in the fifth ...

Trees are one way to cool down a city. Architects in ancient Rome also designed buildings with porticos for shade and air flow. Laszlo Szirtesi/Getty Images As intense heat breaks records around the ...

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Serious thinkers of antiquity offer lessons from Rome’s history that illuminate our current political and moral circumstances. The geographical growth of the Roman Empire ...

Pax Romana is a magic mirror that shows us the bloody beasts we must become to raise and rule an American empire. Few seek such a course, but it is the inevitable end of many or indeed most realistic ...

“Great civilizations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.” The great historian Arnold Toynbee concluded this ...

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Lessons from Ancient Rome is a very relevant and timely lecture as the United States of America faces a decision point in 2020 about which direction to take the country. Reed ...

What does one do with controversial statues — besides, of course, setting up a committee or two or three? As usual, the debate about the Confederate statues on the University of Texas campus has seen ...