The Peacock Stage (detail), attributed to Jörg Breu the Elder, (German, ca. 1475–1537). Miniature from the illuminated...
Month: December 2016
The ruling “makes clear that blanket and indiscriminate retention of our digital histories — who we interact with, when...
By Edwina Shaw / 12.21.2016 Can We Start Speaking To Dolphins? Scientists are now able to begin...
The Deaver Wellness Farm at Lankenau Medical Center. Photo courtesy of Lankenau. In an industry usually focused on...
President-elect Donald Trump. (Image Credit: Associated Press) By Dr. Neil Roberts / 12.04.2016 Associate Professor of Africana...
If you’re in need of some emotional advice, but have neither the time or the money to...
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure...
“I bless this business deal.” Secular Right By Dr. Ellen Wayland-Smith / 12.14.2016 Assistant Professor of Writing...
The unifying style of Parliament Hill, Ottawa, is Gothic Revival Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Roots...
The Cathedral of Light at Sydney’s Vivid Festival. Doug Ford/flickr By Dr. Naomi Stead / 06.10.2016 Associate...
The medieval period in Europe was a time of ignorance, superstition and violence, but it was also...
By Kyle Mantyla / 12.19.2016 Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay sat down with the right-wing conspiracy...
Brodie castle, north Scotland. Albert de Bruijn By Dr. Peter Lindfield / 10.30.2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, Literature and...
The 2007 midwinter solstice illumination of the main altar tabernacle of Old Mission San Juan Bautista, California....
By Jason Marsh / 12.14.2016 Founding Editor-in-Chief, Greater Good During the holidays, opportunities abound to help kids...
By Eugene Robinson / 12.20.2016 Washington Post Columnist President-elect Donald Trump’s victory tour was more than just...
Indigenous African tribal religious masks By Dr. David T. Adamo / 10.31.2011 Kogi State University Abstract This...
These stories are from James Mooney’s History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. Mooney was an...
By Kenneth Greg Watson Historian Current scientific data indicate that Native Americans arrived from Siberia via the...
Sam Cannon demonstrates in support of striking fast-food workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Austin, Tx. on...
Red Cross volunteers respond to the Great Pandemic, 1918. Headstones mark the city’s deadliest virus By Dr....
Odo of Metz, Palatine Chapel Interior, Aachen, 805 (photo: Holly Hayes) By Dr. Nancy Ross / 12.19.2016...
By Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker / 08.15.2015 Mediterranean Archaeologist An architectural order describes a style of building....
Jupiter’s South Pole, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on August 27 2016. Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS, processed by...
Detail of a gypsum wall relief from the northwest at Nimrud. What has survived is the left...
Construction workers on a project in Houston on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. Michael Stravato for The Texas...
12.19.2016 Pepper Bomb Your Mom is a new online service that allows you to send chocolate-covered Carolina...
Sutcliffe Maudsley, “Lt. General Joseph Smith In Nauvoo Legion Uniform,” gouache on paper. By Benjamin Park /...
Garden archaeologist Kathryn Gleason By Annelisa Stephan / 10.08.2010 Research Specialist Kathryn Gleason is an expert on...
The new hero of the GOP By E.J. Dionne, Jr. / 12.19.2016 Washington Post Columnist Beneath the...