International Topics
Topics are not in chronological order.
- Prehistoric Hands and Their Messages from the Past: Paleolithic Cave Art at Lascaux
- Proclaiming the Law of the Land: The Code of Ur-Nammu
- The Rosetta Stone: Champollion and the Decipherment of Hieroglyphics
- Reward Retribution: The Last Judgment as Described in the Egyptian Book of the Dead
- Cracking the Cretan Code: Michael Ventris and the Deciphering of Linear B
- The Introduction of Vowels: Greek Additions to the Phoenician Alphabet
- Good and Evil Personified: The Zoroastrian Concepts of Ahura Mazda and Ahriman
- Athenian Drama as Communication: Greek Cultural Values as Communicated by Euripides
- Recounting the Miracle at Marathon: Herodotus-The Father of History
- Discovering More of the Sacred in the Written Past: The Dead Sea Scrolls
- The Chinese "Way of Nature": Lao Tsu and the Tao Te Ching
- Communication on Three Continents: Persia's Royal Road and the Great King's Mounted Messengers
- Early Plebeian Victory: The Publication of the Twelve Tables of Roman Law
- Graffiti as Communication: The Walls of Pompeii and What They Tell
- Outpost of Empire: Hadrian's Wall and the Recent Recovery of Its Legionaries' Letters
- The Christian Use of Symbolism during Roman Persecutions
- Messages of Hope: Inscribed Prayers and Christian Art in the Roman Catacombs
- Pope Damasus, St. Jerome, and the Canonization of the Christian Bible
- Order out of Legal Chaos: Justinian and the Corpus Juris Civilis
- Rights of the Accused: The Enduring Legacy of Magna Carta
- The Mahabharata: Hindu Classic of Good and Evil
- The Tripitaka: The Moral Teachings of Siddhartha Gautama
- Guide for Western European Monks: The Rule of St. Benedict
- Early Monastic Musical Notation: The Roots of Modern Sheet Music
- Feudal Japan and The Tale of Genji: The World's First Novel
- From Hindus to Arabs to Europeans: The Appeal of the Base·Ten Number System
- Muhammad, the Qur'an, and the "People of the Book"
- Masterpiece of Jewish Scholarship: The Leningrad Codex
- Masterpiece of Irish Scholarship: The Book of Kells
- The Invention of Paper: China's Gift to the World
- The Trivium and the Quadrivium: Medieval Precursors of our Educational System
- Alcuin of York: Charlemagne's Palace Schoolmaster and Teacher of Letters I
- The Ottonian Renaissance: The Morality Plays of the German Nun, Hroswitha II
- Communication in the Thick of Battle: The Origins of Medieval Heraldry and Escutcheon Design I
- Fragile Fabric of History: William's Victory at Hastings as Recounted on the Bayeux Tapestry
- Brother Sun and Sister Moon: The Poetry of St. Francis of Assisi
- II Comedia Divino: Dante's Masterpiece and Its Influence on the Rise of Florentine Italian
- The Travels of Marco Polo: Inspiration for Discovery
- The Travels of John Mandeville: History or Hoax?
- " ...We All fall Down": The Deadly Serious Content of English Children's Rhymes
- The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer's Pilgrimages Rendered in the King's English
- Medieval Voice for Gender Equality: Christine de Pizan's The City of Ladies
- The Genesis of European Movable Type: The Printed Bible of Johann Gutenberg
- The Early Use of Propaganda: The Reformation and the Origin of Modem Political Cartoons
- The Role of the Printing Press in Spreading the Protestant Reformation
- Utopia: Sir Thomas More's Dream of a Just Society
- Recounting the Great London Fire: The Diary of Samuel Pepys
- Stirring the Souls of Les Citoyens: The Role of La Marseillaise in Inspiring French Revolutionary
- Fervor
- "England Expects Every Man to Do His Duty": Nelson's Coded Orders at Trafalgar
- Napoleon's Master Spy: Karl Schulmeister's Use of Counterfeit Newspapers to Deceive the Enemy
- Speeding Combat Dispatches: The Crimean War, Telegraphy, and Instant News from the Front
- Reporting Events by Telegraph and Pigeon: Paul Julius von Reuter and His News Agency
- Critics of Capitalism: Marx, Engels, and Their Predictions in the Communist Manifesto
- Connecting the Continents: The Laying of the Undersea Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
- Bismarck and Realpolitik: How His Manipulation of the Ems Dispatch led to the Franco-Prussian
- War
- Dawn of the Age of Radio: Guglielmo Marconi and His Trans-Oceanic Wireless Transmissions
- "SOS": The Repeated Radio Distress Messages of the Doomed Passenger Liner, RMS Titanic
- Hasty Communications: Kaisar Wilhelm's Carte Blanche to Austria and its Devastating Result
- All Quiet on the Western Front?: The Role of Censorship in World War I
- Prophet of the Coming World War and Carpet Bombing: Giulio Douhet and His Command of the Air
- The Threat That Too Few Read: Adolf Hitler and Mein Kampf
- Obstructing Dissention: Hitler and the List of Books He Burned
- The Serious Business of Humor: Piet Hien's Anti-Nazi Grooks
- Cracking Hitler's Code: The Dedicated Group at "Station X" -Bletchley Park, England
- Hitler's World War II Secret Code Computer: The Enigma and How It Fell into Allied Hands
- Japan's Codes Unmasked: The Role of Decipherment in Defeating the Japanese in World War II
- Che Gueverra: Diary of a Revolutionary
- China's Red Guards: Taking Inspiration from Mao's Little Red Book
- Pulitzer: Prizing Publications Worldwide