By Kate Arnoff / 02.12.2016 Yesterday, The Atlantic’s Eric Liu asked what it would take to move...
Month: May 2016
An 1858 woodcut celebrating the laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable. (Library of Congress) By Ben Wilson...
The need to mend broken hearts has never been greater. But what if we could simply manufacture...
Speaker’s Platform, Athens Assembly, Pynx, Athens By Dr. Edward M. Harris Professor of Ancient History Durham University...
By Matthew A. McIntosh / 05.27.2016 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accepted a challenge...
By Dr. Frank Becker Professor of History Universität Duisburg-Essen Abstract The American Revolution was not only a...
By David Robertson / 05.27.2016 Snowflake college students are the subject of a lengthy article published by...
Don’t neglect to unplug and be actually alone. Woman on beach via shutterstock.com By Dr. Scott Campbell...
By Tumi Ferrer The history of coffee in Iceland dates back to November 16th 1703, when Árni...
By Dr. Lawrence S. Wittner Professor Emeritus of History University at Albany, State University of New York...
Wikimedia Commons By Krystal D’Costa It’s hard to imagine that knowledge could be lost today. Technology seems...
Edmund Husserl By Dr. Dominique Lestel, Dr. Jeffrey Bussolini, and Dr. Matthew Chrulew Lestel –...
An anti-Trump protest in April. (Photo: A. Jones/flickr/cc) Cleveland’s “extreme limitations” on protests, laid out on Wednesday,...
“It’s a persistent, personal gloom like one of those cartoon rain clouds that follows the victim around,...
Hedy Epstein, who died at her home on Thursday at the age of 91, often shared her...
By Dr. Antonio De Lauri Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Cultures and Societies of the Middle East...
Photo © iStockphoto.com/Andrey Danilovich Marine governance favors consumption and commerce over conservation. Here’s what we can do...
Medieval towns were vibrant hubs of activity, housing an array of people from political and spiritual leaders...
Block V (fragment) from the east frieze of the Parthenon, ca. 447–433 BC. British Museum, main floor,...
By Harlow Giles Unger / 05.22.2016 Author and Historian Recent speculation about the likely reactions of America’s...
Some independent journalists in China call themselves grassroots historians and publish their writing on social media platforms....
The largest statue of goddess Cybele discovered in its Temple from ancient Dionysolpolis, with a lion relief...
Jacob Butler checks on grapes in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community garden. YES! photo by Tristan Ahtone. From...
American Family Association official and radio host Sandy Rios By Brian Tashman / 05.25.2016 American Family Association...
The modern renaissance of the lyric essay occurs in an age distinguished by increasingly interrupted experience By...
By (left to right) Dr. Jana Jones, Dr. Tom F.G. Higham, Dr. Ron...
Credit: NASA/Flickr It will take at least three decades to completely leave behind fossil fuels. But we...
Astronomers have found the first evidence of comets around a star similar to the sun, providing an...
As the co-founder of Reverb Technologies, the maker of the online dictionary Wordnik, Erin McKean is reshaping...
The findings are the latest development in the email scandal that has persisted throughout Clinton’s presidential campaign....