This article examines the history of Streator Commandery No. 70, Knights Templar (Streator, Illinois), from 1926 to 1929, on the eve of and during the initial phase of the Great Depression.
The article examines the history of the formation, principles of cataloging, and features of historical reconstruction of the Portrait Gallery of the Museum of the History of the American Knights Templar at Cherkas Global University.
This article examines the life and activities of Thomas Smith Webb (1771—1819), one of the most prominent figures in American Freemasonry in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The aim of the study is to reconstruct the principal stages of his biography and examine his multifaceted activities as a businessman, songwriter, and Freemason.
This article examines Masonic publications from the colonial period (1769—1772) held in the collection of the Museum of the History of the American Knights Templar. Particular attention is paid to the historical and bibliographical description of two rare editions: James Anderson’s The Constitutions of the Free-Masons and Wellins Calcott’s A Candid Disquisition.
This study is devoted to the personality of Nikolai Alexandrovich Menshutkin (1842—1907), a Russian chemist and professor at the Imperial St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute.
This article examines specific aspects of the personal and professional life of N.N. Zinin (1812—1880), a Russian organic chemist, academician, and Privy Councilor. The name Nikolai Nikolayevich Zinin is well-known within the field of chemistry and the history of the discipline.
Based on new empirical data and theoretical modeling, a new concept of M. Weber's triad “power-wealth-prestige” is proposed. The triad exhausts the fundamental goods that encourage people to engage in social activity. The three types of goods generate each other and correspond to a one-dimensional or almost one-dimensional social space, where the unit of measurement is the flow of goods or the human capital of lower-status participants.
This study examines rare and unique artifacts held by the Museum of the History of the American Knights Templar at Cherkas Global University. The source base of the study consists of materials from six specialized museum collections, as well as rare editions from the P.A. Cherkasov Fundamental Library and documents from the Archive of Cherkas Global University.
This article provides a brief history of the creation and phenomenal market success of Glock pistols, the 45th anniversary of whose first prototype is celebrated in 2026. The author examines the historical and biographical details of the life of Gaston Glock and his pistols: from the production of household equipment for the Austrian army to the media hysteria surrounding the «invisible pistol» and the tragic FBI shootout of 1986.
This article examines the imagery and narratives used in US Army posters promoting anticasual sex during World War II. The research methodology utilizes both general scientific research methods and specific historical ones.
The article is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of anti-Soviet and anti-Russian propaganda in the occupation press within the Military Administration Zone of Ukraine during 1941—1943. It characterizes the goals, methods, and regional specifics of the Nazi informational manipulation of the local population.
The object of the study is the development of an individual entrenching tool. The subject of the study is the influence of the features of the use of individual entrenching tools and the development of technologies on the change in the design of a small infantry shovel.
