Mar/Apr 2023 - NGH Single Copy

HISTORY MARCH/APRIL 2023
CATHERINE THE GREAT
Even as she expanded the Russian Empire, Catherine The Great pressed on at home with sweeping reforms in women’s education and mass vaccination programs among the highlights of her 34-year reign. Also in this issue, we learn about other notable women including Pauline Bonaparte and Messalina, wife of Roman Emporer Claudius, discover the lost canal of Xerxes, revisit the very real world of Mycenaean Greece in the Bronze Age through Homer’s epic The Odyssey, and travel to Buenos Aires where tango was born in its slums and scorned as vulgar and where today its European-African flavors are revered as Argentina’s national dance.