Whenever religion merges with nationalism, Hypatia’s shadow reappears. Her story warns that the moment belief wields the...
History
In the long arc of intellectual history, the autonomy of the medieval university emerges as the seed...
The Münster Rebellion stands as one of the most haunting episodes of the Reformation, not simply for...
The story of the Agapemonites is not merely a curiosity of Victorian eccentricity but a revealing chapter...
From Liberty to Empire: The French Revolution’s Collapse from Radical Idealism to Authoritarian Rule 
From Liberty to Empire: The French Revolution’s Collapse from Radical Idealism to Authoritarian Rule
To study the French Revolution, then, is to confront the fragility of all revolutions. Every movement for...
Each collapse (whether agrarian, fascist, postcolonial, or digital) produces not only political debris but human remains of...
By the time British troops felled the Liberty Tree in 1775, the movement it had nourished had...
Freedom, in the American sense, was never bestowed from above. The hands that build its cities, till...
Augustus’ rule stands as one of history’s greatest paradoxes: a revolution executed in the language of restoration....
From Washington’s modest oath to the twenty-first-century “imperial presidency,” the trajectory of American executive power traces the...
To worship the biblical God as “author of life” is to venerate a being who repeatedly chose...
Many variations of a name are possible. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Pubs remain a prominent feature of...
It invoked both the supreme military and political power of the Roman Empire. By Sophie Taylor Introduction...
Challenging authority with laughter. By Lorraine BoissoneaultWriter, Producer, and Journalist Anti-Roman sentiment may have run rampant through...
By the time John Marshall left the bench in 1835, the nation he had helped to shape...
The Velvet Revolution endures as one of modern history’s clearest demonstrations that legitimacy, not violence, anchors political...
The world of gambling has captivated humanity for millennia, evolving from ancient dice games played in dusty...
History’s cruel symmetry exposes the enduring paradox of faith and power: that those who kill in the...
Culturally and intellectually, Gaza stands as one of the more compelling examples of provincial vitality within the...
The tyrant’s descent from ruler to exile followed a logic as ancient as power itself. In seeking...
Ultimately, the history of the kangaroo court is not simply about the failure of law on the...
The same nation that welcomed millions also imposed racial hierarchies and exclusionary laws that defined who could...
By the late 1930s, the United States had completed its transformation from a nation of migration to...
He entered office promising to restore the voice of the people, and in many respects he succeeded....
Across more than two centuries of American history, the struggle over the power of the purse has...
Two lineages of late Neanderthals in Europe, not just one. By Dr. Ludovic SlimakArchaeologist and ResearcherUniversité de...
Wo-Chi-Ca was born in 1935, catering mostly — but not exclusively — to children in the New...
The communal activities undertaken here gave rise to the greatest musical traditions of the U.S.: ragtime and...
From the othering of the historical figure and the ongoing mystical aura of Eastern Europe, there was...
Classical liberalism gained full flowering in the early 18th century. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction...