Massive rallies, an emulated style, and voted from both Democrats and Republicans couldn’t save this quixotic candidate’s...
Month: May 2019
On the motives of a reluctant memoirist. In late 1884, after delivering an evening lecture at Chickering...
Fully one in four Union fighters was foreign-born. In the summer of 1861, an American diplomat in...
Even if a treaty by this name was never drawn up, it is true that there was...
The battle was won through a very unusual strategy on Cambyses II’s part: the use of animals...
The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” have too much historical baggage. In early 2019, Donald Trump warned against socialism: it “promises...
In 1888, small farmers, sharecroppers, and industrial workers organized to fight inequality. Today, when Americans think about...
George Pullman’s unbending business acumen made him a mogul but also inspired the greatest labor uprising of...
George III never visited Italy. Instead he collected prints, drawings, and guidebooks enabling him to travel virtually...
Founded by Henry I, there was a close connections between the abbey and the English kings. It...
The attack had been six years in the making, and still, the Persians were not fully prepared....
A masterful militarily astute and diplomatically strategic queen. Halicarnassus was a Graeco-Carian city that belonged to the empire of...
In 1915, a congressional bill was introduced to ban all civilian wireless activities from the airwaves. Static...
Genevieve Hitt, likely the first woman to serve the U.S. government as a cryptologist, broke ground in...
Examining the formal and contextual heterogeneity, as well as the interpretive instability, of objects representing the 1686...
Damascus is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. To understand the importance of...
You might say the Roman emperor Septimius Severus was a dreamer, but he wasn’t the only one....
Our knowledge of the ancient world owes a lot to chance discoveries. Here, we share the stories...
Denying a woman the right to have control over her own body is dehumanization of the highest...
Reproductive rights advocates in the Southeast are working nonstop to help low-income women. By Lornet Turnbull Nearly...
The Comstock Law brought reproductive issues to the forefront of American society and paved the way for...
The termination of Restell’s conviction involving Purdy kept her out of prison and allowed her to continue...
To help explain the policy and keep the vocabulary straight, here are a few key questions and...
What bones tell us about the lives and deaths of the dead. In 2011, AOC Archaeology completed...
Investigating health and hygiene in 18th century Britain, against a backdrop of industrialization and the subsequent over-crowding...
Many people think climate change caused Classic Maya civilization to collapse abruptly around 900 A.D. An archaeologist...
Modern civilizations might also be less capable of recovering from deep collapse than their predecessors. Is the...
New England statesman Daniel Webster believed in strong, centralized power when it served his region’s interests. For...
The committee delegated Thomas Jefferson to undertake the task, and he worked diligently in private for days...
Social media monitoring programs and the algorithms that power them aren’t effective — and may be discriminatory....