Imagining a love letter from Putin to Trump. Greetings from Moscow, dear Donald! It was nice seeing you...
Month: February 2019
A discussion of Avicenna’s 11th-century points of view on rabies and compare them with modern medical knowledge....
Among the first three manuscripts written in Persian, Akhawayni’s Hidayat al-muta’allemin fi al-tibb was the most significant work compiled...
The earliest remains of Persepolis date back to 515 BCE. It exemplifies the Achaemenid style of architecture....
Darius was the ruler of a multicultural empire, and he was willing to accept the gods of...
A measles outbreak is causing major concern in a Washington county where only 22 percent of children...
The pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and woo spreading across the world wreaks havoc on those that buy into it. News of anti-vaxxer movements,...
Rebecca Rego Barry on Dr. David Hosack, the doctor who attended Alexander Hamilton to his duel (and...
The illustrations in medieval herbals are beautiful and mysterious. But if you know how to read them,...
Yma Sumac’s career embodied many of the contradictions that emerge when the international desire to consume exoticism...
Analyzing how three maps of Barbados promoted a flattering image of British colonialism in the Caribbean. To...
Throughout history, individuals, states, or political factions have gained sovereignty over regions through the use of war....
As western civilization emerged, power struggles and technological advancements gave birth to new empires and saw their...
Elizabeth Van Lew was a Richmond, Virginia abolitionist and philanthropist who built and operated an extensive spy...
Congress formed secret committees to oversee intelligence operations in the fight against the British. Introduction American Intelligence...
Americans cannot lose faith in democracy even as they face the consequences of the current circumstances. Like...
The observation of the sky was of considerable importance to the Maya, Aztecs and other prehisanic peoles...
Since the beginning of humankind, the fascination with the celestial vault has been regarded as an important...
Pisistratus’s story as a tyrant of Athens offered a powerful script for interpreting Robespierre’s actions, and a...
Basville’s private correspondence reveals aspects of his character that deepen our understanding of the intendancy in the...
Exploring the dominant influence of religious notions in people’s worldview, providing meaning and powerfully influencing their cognitions,...
Not all religions follow the same practices but there are some similarities between most, if not all,...
This has even opened the door to alliances between groups that once would have had nothing to...
Howard Thurman, a mentor to MLK, first met Gandhi during a visit to India in 1936. He...
Transformed in the 1950s from a sharecropper shack that was built probably in the 1920s, Poor Monkey’s...
Through its representation of physical and psychological effects, Séjour’s story inaugurated the literary delineation of slavery’s submission-rebellion...
Sumūd the nonviolent everyday practices or resistance by Palestinians to Israeli occupation. Introduction In Palestine, the practice...
Early Israelite religion may once have shared the Canaanite belief in El and other gods, before the...
The Levant stretches 400 miles north to south from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert, and...
These industries are among the country’s worst water polluters. By Jasmine Spearing-Bowen and Karl Schneider In Ringwood,...