A scholar went on a Voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti and learned how an oppressive slave past has...
Month: June 2019
Well-worn routes resulted along which regular stopping points allowed pilgrims to sleep, eat, and be cared for...
Originally established in the 13th century to combat heretical groups, the Inquisition became a sophisticated, global operation...
The medieval Church developed and retained its power by encouraging the innate human fear of death and...
Economic progress alone will not bring stability to the region. By Larry Garber Watching the Bahrain Peace...
There are at least five reasons why the claim that the Bible is to be taken literally...
For thousands of years, Yazidism incorporated elements of Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Gnosticism, Christianity, and Islam. By Seth EislundStudentCarleton...
Interned Japanese-Americans produced newspapers to chronicle the stories and experiences of their community in a time of...
In 1911, the Dillingham Commission set a half-century precedent for screening out ‘undesirable’ newcomers. The Dillingham Commission...
Seeking out the histories and communities that existed before Route 66 and that survive still today. By...
The president and his Seneca friend Ely Parker wanted Native Americans to gain citizenship, but their efforts...
Europeans, speaking Spanish, Italian and French, had to communicate with indigenous peoples through Nahuatl, the lingua franca...
Archaeologists interested in what the skull trophies may tell about a tumultuous time of shifting political power....
World War II brought about a new deal for veterans. Introduction In the early morning hours of...
Recruits in the first African-American Marine Corps trained at Montford Point, eventually ending the military’s longstanding policy...
Fake news and smoking guns made the Kansas town a symbol of frontier lawlessness. Everywhere American popular...
Before John Marshall, the Supreme Court had been a constitutional afterthought. No one in the founding generation...
Geophysicists use sound waves to build a picture of the magma and rock beneath this active volcano,...
Remainders of Crete’s extraordinary past are scattered all over the island. Introduction As the cradle of European Civilization and...
Research has found ways to detect deepfakes through flaws that can’t be fixed easily by the fakers....
People fall for fake photos regardless of whether they seem to come from Facebook or The New...
Remembering what one of last century’s most courageous Jewish journalists taught us. By Peter Dreier In this...
Thanks to Ida Tarbell, we’re not to afraid to expose the shenanigans of the super-rich. Over the...
Webster saw himself as a saviour of the American language. In the United States, the name Noah...
Charting the evolution of Old English through the 700 years during which it was written and spoken....
This projected halt is a first in modern history. For the first time in modern history, the...
An entrepreneur, hunter, woodsman, scientist, and artist — John James Audubon, famous for his epic The Birds...
Geoarchaeology in action: the story of the River Tyburn from 11,500 years ago to the present. Originally...
“I believe that all Germany’s Jews are looking around the world, but can find nowhere to go.”...
A 16th-century folk art was her passport from Sicily to Upstate New York. By Kathleen GarrettActress The...