For Freetown colony’s whites, and Henry’s friends and family in Sierra Leone, his story quickly boiled over....
Month: March 2019
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....
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,...
In 1741 the Norwegian-Danish author Ludvig Holberg published Klimii Iter Subterraneum, a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel detailing the...
Medieval illuminated manuscript of the Qu’ran Professor David Watt asks us to look beyond recent events themselves...
The subtext is almost always that the Western paradigm of modernity. A single model of modernity? The...
Examining the centuries’-old sectarian Shia-Sunni divide. Tensions between Sunnis and Shias have been flaring up, with several...
Americans tend to prefer beers that have corn or rice ‘adjuncts,’ or fillers. RetroClipArt/Shutterstock.com The unique role of...
Archaic and classical Greek culture was steeped in spirit. Archaic and classical Greek culture was steeped in...
Warfare and terrorism have long laid waste to historical sites. Many of us may remember Syrian archaeologist...
The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1773) / National Gallery, Wikimedia Commons...
One reason why the steel magnate spent so much of his fortune building libraries across the nation...
Starting with the medieval poor/rich-topics in the Aquinian tradition of the theological economy of charity, following a...