Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr Ralph David Abernathy, their families, and others leading the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. It is not often that a neighborhood squabble is remembered as a world-historical event. By Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick / 08.22.2018 Humanities Editor Los Angeles Review of Books It is not often that a neighbourhood squabble[…]
Christopher Bordenave and Sasha Rivero perform Sky Echo at the Getty An is not exclusive to sound. It can also pertain to flesh. By Hugo Cervantes / 08.22.2018 Photos by Danielle Espino For choreographer Samantha Blake, an echo is not exclusive to sound. It can also pertain to flesh. Her site-specific dance Sky Echo, which[…]
A meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia on board the USS Quincy in Egypt’s Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal. An overview of the history of monarchy in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the Emirates. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 08.22.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Saudi Arabia Introduction[…]
A brief critical survey of the development, implications, and limitations of the Age of Commerce paradigm in Southeast Asia. By Dr. David Henley Professor of Contemporary Indonesia Studies Leiden University Introduction Fernand Braudel classically proposed three interlocking historiographic time frames: the ‘history of events’, the history of cycles, and the longue durée or long duration.[…]
Federated States of Micronesia. The Yap Islands can be found in the far western portion of the Federated States Yap Islanders give a literal meaning to “cold, hard cash.” By Dr. Dick Van Tuerenhout / 05.05.2015 Curator of Anthropology Houston Museum of Natural Science We have all grown accustomed to seeing new forms of payment[…]
Nan Madol, 13th-17th century C.E., Pohnpei, The Federated States of Micronesia (photo: smwd0030, CC BY 2.0) Sometimes art and architecture calls on us to reimagine what we think was possible in the past, and what ancestors were able to achieve. By Dr. Billie Jane Lythberg / 08.20.2018 Senior Research Fellow The University of Auckland How did[…]