Athens reveals that demagoguery does not fall because it is intellectually refuted. It collapses when it fails...
History
The Late Roman Republic demonstrates with unusual clarity that political popularity and political power are not synonymous....
A recurring moment in political life when legitimacy is no longer measured by ideals, participation, or moral...
Democratic collapse is rarely triggered by enthusiasm for authoritarianism. It is enabled by exhaustion, drift, and the...
This three-hundred-year period was one of artistic vibrance and immense cultural influence. Introduction In contrast to the...
The city of Homer’s Iliad is generally accepted to have been found and is associated with three...
Greenland’s medieval history reveals that sovereignty in the North Atlantic was never an empty abstraction waiting for...
The long European engagement with Greenland reveals a consistent pattern in the exercise of power over Arctic...
The Monroe Doctrine’s legacy demonstrates how easily defensive principles can be repurposed into rationales for dominance once...
Greenland’s modern history stands as a sustained counterexample to the older assumption that strategic necessity inevitably leads...
Archaeologists continue to uncover the mysteries of Stonehenge. By Dr. Nicholas PearceEmeritus Professor of GeochemistryAberystwyth University By...
For more than a century, the Supreme Court treated the Bill of Rights as a limited restraint...
The modern Fourth Amendment is not the product of a single constitutional moment, but of a long...
Far from being a simple pastime, the game functioned as a lived expression of values tied to...
A reminder that democratic participation has historically taken forms that blurred the boundaries between politics, social life,...
The life and career of Charles Dickens challenge conventional definitions of education rooted in formal schooling and...
The life of Albert Einstein demonstrates that intellectual freedom often emerges in opposition to institutions designed to...
Congressional control of the budget has remained the most consistent and consequential instrument of oversight available to...
Across four centuries, the violence inflicted on Native Americans by the United States reveals a consistent architecture...
Studying history requires more than just reading a textbook. To truly understand past events, historians and students...
The long European suspicion of bathing was not the result of indifference to health or ignorance of...
Opposition to vaccination arose in a period marked by genuine medical uncertainty, uneven standards of evidence, and...
They had room to explore the many different ways women might be depicted on film. By Claire...
The darling of the silent-film industry led the way on many cinematic innovations of the era. By...
It was especially the prophetic function that gave Egašankalamma a nationwide significance, and this was actively promoted...
In the poems of the alvar, love, directed toward Vishnu, takes many forms: humble service; unconditional, protective...
Examining the Peplos Kore reminds us that years of erosion and wear can significantly change the appearance...
Evidence does not support the notion that Roman women were, as a rule, banned from partaking in...
Vespasian’s efforts to revive official cult honors for the deified Claudius for continuity. (De)Constructing Nero’s Legacy In...
Bonaparte secured the services of 167 of the most distinguished scientists and scholars in France. Introduction The...