The heads of the “Big Four” nations at the Paris Peace Conference, 27 May 1919. From left...
Month: November 2018
Wilson campaign vehicle, New York City, March 1916: “Who Keeps Us Out of War?” How idealistic was...
Image by DonkeyHotey, CreativeCommons It may be helpful to offer the old expression “if you are looking for...
Much of our world today is what they fought against. By Dr. David Del Testa / 11.09.2018...
They forgot to heed the lessons of the 19th century round of peace talks that ended the...
From the largest volunteer army to the secret agent Noor Inayat Khan, examining the contributions made by...
Doughboys fighting in France, 1917. Associated Press It was ‘the Good War,’ the ‘war to end all wars.’ So why has...
Boston, Lincolnshire / Wikimedia Commons National populism poses dangers in its delegitimization of mainstream politics and through its...
William Jennings Bryan during the 1896 campaign for U.S. president / U.S. Information Agency, Wikimedia Commons For...
From “A full and complete account of the late awful riots in Philadelphia : embellished with ten engravings”, part...
Athens city walls / Photo by GreeceGuy, Wikimedia Commons Critically examining elements of both anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric environmentalism...
Harvest scene from the Ptolemaic tomb of Petosiris A study comparing eruptions and uprisings looks at how...
Examining the emergence of ancient Egyptian law out of religion and specifically arising from the concept of maat. By...
With moralistic gods watching, it’s easier to be fair and cooperative. Olivier, CC BY-NC-ND For human groups to grow from small,...
White House Press Corps, 1918 In light of the relationship between the press and the president, the James...
19th century illustration of a Nadar Detective camera / april-mo, Flickr, Creative Commons What gave photography power...
Exploring Xenophon’s ideas of virtue in leadership, excellence, and happiness. By Dr. Nili Alon Amit / 12.31.2016 Humanities...
A brief historical context of Xenophon’s Anabasis By Ian Joseph BA Cultural Anthropology, The University of Chicago...
Part of Themistocles’s wall in Kerameikos / Wikimedia Commons Built in several phases, they provided a secure...
Ancient Athens practically invented Western culture, but xenophobia led to the collapse of the Empire. Flickr/SantiMB The ancients...
If I believe it is raining outside… The Umbrella (1883) by Marie Bashkirtseff. Courtesy the State Russian Museum/Wikipedia ‘It is wrong...
Craig Cloutier/Flickr/Creative Commons By Dr. Stephen Law / 12.15.2015 Philosopher and Author Centre for Inquiry Human beings...
Bundesarchiv Bild 119-0779 / German Federal Archive, Wikimedia Commons The democratic Weimar Republic fell with dizzying speed. By...
Andrew Dickson explores the vibrant, experimental and precarious culture that developed in Weimar Germany in the 1920s...
‘Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur,’ by Maurycy Gottlieb, 1878 In the 1870s European Judaism...
Photo by bl3w, Flickr, Creative Commons Tracing the notion of ekplexis in Greek rhetoric and the connections in etymology, myth,...
In Ancient Greek texts, the king Lycaon is punished for misdeeds by being turned into a wolf....
This image shows the machine works of Richard Hartmann in Chemnitz, Germany. Hartmann was one of the most successful entrepreneurs...
Hutterite family 1588 Anabaptists constituted one of the most persecuted and most mobile religious populations of the...
An overview of the main phases of the history of globalization, as well as of radical structural breaks....