Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons It’s 15 years since England’s last public post-mortem, but what was the history...
Month: March 2019
Beneath every far-right internet troll is a person with a name and a life offline. By Jared...
Sometimes, stories of heroism reveal themselves in the most unusual and humble ways. By Sandra Vea The...
After the attack by the Japanese Empire on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, American attitudes towards...
Westerners were a feature of late-19th-century China, albeit a much smaller presence than Thomson would have us...
Thomson’s photographic medium possessed qualities that draw the attention of viewers and lay claim to a degree...
In 1890, Henry Adams – the historian, academic, journalist, and descendant of two US presidents – set...
Lambert literally represented one quarter of the new nation. The Islands of Refreshment consisted of four people....
Is the human body innately terrestrial, unsuited to a prolonged time away from its earthly element? On...
For Freetown colony’s whites, and Henry’s friends and family in Sierra Leone, his story quickly boiled over....
Their heyday was in the last hundred years of their existence, during the time of the Stuart...
There are lessons from ancient history that could prove instructive. A caravan of Goths – the Thervingi...
The myth of Theseus’ sacred journey’ continued to be re-enacted in an Athenian state festival held in...
Clay model of a first century Roman War Ship / Museum of Sparta The story of modeled ships...
He believed that faster news meant diminished quality. According to a recently released Pew Center survey, almost...
Henry David Thoreau might appear to be very ill-adapted for the modern West – but his writing...
There is a time to embrace the joy of doing less. In The Art of the Wasted Day,...
Henry David Thoreau went in for society, but on his own terms. A century and a half...
Potters began to enrich vases in the Geometric Period with depictions of people, animals, ships, and more....
Navigation of the sea is shown to have commenced in the order of one million years ago....
A 2017 survey suggested almost half of Americans think that having sex with robots will become a...
Scotland has its own independent legal system, education system and religious institutions, and gay men were criminalized...
One of the biggest challenges facing medieval historians is interpreting the actions of individuals at a remove...
Across the United States, evangelical churches are failing to protect victims of sexual abuse among their members....
The problem with mixing religion and politics was that political issues became moral issues and, therefore, more...
Controversies surrounding the 1830 Indian Removal Act reflected the Early Republic’s problem of church and state. “I...
Most Carthaginian gods were inherited from the Phoenicians, but these were adapted, and their names and functions...
The Phoenician Religion, as in many other ancient cultures, was an inseparable part of everyday life. By...
From occupying House offices to suing the federal government, young people are exploring creative strategies to spur...
The year 2011 marked the 100th anniversary of the children’s classic The Secret Garden. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina,...