Staring at bloodied soldiers in a train station one fateful April day, Clara Barton rolled up her...
Month: February 2019
The Seattle General Strike had its origins in the city’s many shipyards. It shut down a major...
After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, central authority fell to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the Shogunate began....
The Japanese call their country Nippon, which means origin of the sun. Introduction There are four major islands and...
Franklin advanced a scientific – not supernatural – understanding of astronomical events such as eclipses. His satirical...
About 85% of all matter in the universe consists of a mysterious, invisible, and as-of-yet unidentified substance...
While the president chased after his wall, the real national emergency was people dying in extreme weather....
Life-threatening cold temperatures in the central US are caused by changes in wind circulation in the Arctic that bring...
You’ve come a long way, baby. moggafogga, CC BY-NC-ND The how and the when of dog domestication are fairly...
So, you found my ancestors? Are you sure this time? epsos There has been much debate about how cats...
The use of animals for their renewable products greatly increased human capabilities in prehistory. The use of...
Ancient DNA analyses show that – unlike elsewhere in Europe – farmers from the Near East did...
Analyzing the role that the Safavid economy played within the rapidly developing global economic system. By Connor...
The empire established Shi’a Islam as Iran’s official religion and united its provinces under a single Iranian...
Seljuk art and architecture is a fusion of Persian, Islamic, and Central Asian (Turkic) elements. By Dr....
Kahina’s life is only known through later Arab historians writing on the Muslim conquest of Africa. Introduction...
International corporations help bolster the authoritarian status quo that prevails in most of the Arab region. When...
The “Saltmen of Zanjan” were preserved by a very rare form of natural mummification which had occurred...
Death rituals help us to cope with loss and perhaps even feelings of guilt associated with disposing...
Lincoln deserves far more credit than he has received as an architect of American constitutional law. Introduction...
The founders were an essential political and cultural touchstone in the election of 1864. “Four score and...
Martin van Buren was a man for the people, and especially for the downtrodden. Martin van Buren...
He claimed that he embodied the people in the same way that Louis XIV believed that he...
Jeffersonian scholarship is not a fool’s errand, but it is extremely arduous. Merrill Peterson, the preeminent Jeffersonian scholar,...
Sentiment began to change in earnest in the wake of the decision to publicize the XYZ dispatches...
The impact of political and social expectations on women in the Western world. By Dr. Max Barnish,...
Analyzing classical religious influences on the work of Ehab Mamdouh. Abstract This paper focuses on the work...
Quaker worship services have always consisted of long periods of silent reflection. “The voices of the past...
Grillot de Givry’s discovery of this 18th-century manuscript from an alleged witch was serendipitous – twice over....
A collective of activist women in Afghanistan shows the importance of women’s voices to combat extremism and...