Looking beyond an initial impression to dissect what is happening beyond the surface in particular historical contexts....
Month: March 2019
Logic, science and critical thinking are working miracles for non-believers. It’s official: the people of Great Britain...
Ukraine’s Orthodox Church recently broke off from Russia. This dispute has a history that goes back to...
The Kingdom of Jerusalem did, in fact, make its own important cultural contributions. On 15 July 1099,...
The shift among voters likely means a corresponding shift in what makes a candidate electable. By Andrew...
Modern Taoists in China (and elsewhere) worship many gods at private altars and in public ceremonies which...
The relationship between church and state is the institutional form of the relationship between the religious and political spheres. This...
There was an outpouring of anti-immigrant rhetoric during the years between the first and second world wars...
The experience of the Great War helped to radically change notions of citizenship in Britain. Three days...
Thousands of images from the Pierre de Gigord Collection are now accessible online. By Isotta PoggiDepartment of...
The Turks absorbed, adapted and modified the cultures of conquered lands and their peoples. Introduction Ottoman culture evolved...
The Reconquest set the scene for the rise of Spain and the end of Islamic rule on...
The inter-marriage of Muslim families and the mingling with Christianity provides us with an interesting back story...
Despite the empowerment of the LGBTI movement during the last 20 years, LGBTI people in Russia face...
The aging Soviet leadership of the 1980s was ill-equipped to deal with ongoing economic stagnation and worsening...
Sara’s images defined the Soviet Union at its ‘base line’. What was life like in early Soviet...
When the Spanish ambassador to Elizabeth I’s court was implicated in a plot to kill her, he...
Upon the scaffold he turned to his companion, Dr William Juxon, and uttered the word: ‘Remember’. In...
Instead of fighting it, we should embrace the desire for economic growth and direct its path. By...
Humans have crafted garments for more than 40,000 years—and prehistoric tools suggest that warmth wasn’t their only...
A key requisite for the use and appreciation of all beads and pendants is a level of...
Secret portions of a lawsuit allege that Purdue Pharma, controlled by the Sackler family, considered capitalizing on...
Today’s status of the profession and those who practice it results from an evolution over thousands of...
The London Clinic / Photo by Ben Gilbert, Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons What have snakes, unicorns and...
As politically polarized as the country may seem, when it comes to marijuana, Americans across the spectrum...
The “age of extremes” from 1914 to 1945 created renewed demand for cheap supplies of protein. One...
A medieval kitchen / British Library, Public Domain If your latest diet resolution is already under strain,...
Patents, patients, and stunted progress in pursuit of the dollar. By Deborah Gleeson and Hazel Moir Efforts...
Big corporations, not street dealers, are the true authors and profiteers of the opioid crisis. By Domenica...
Eighteenth-century medical practitioners faced menaces like cholera, dysentery, measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, syphilis, typhus, typhoid, tuberculosis, and...