Porter gave a glimpse into a region that was largely unknown to most Europeans. Introduction Sir Robert...
Month: June 2019
By Melinda Smith Horses are not indigenous to the state of Victoria or anywhere else in Australia....
What did the New Deal look like in Chicago and the greater Illinois region? Who were its...
This gift from America to Scotland can be understood as a symbol of Gilded Age transatlantic relations....
General George Washington gave the orders to destroy towns and take prisoners in Sullivan’s Campaign, but her...
In the years after the French and Indian War, Britain’s strategies to keep its Native American alliances...
The artifacts exhibited can tell us about the Vikings’ lives and values in a time of transition...
Warfare was interwoven into Celtic social structures, art, religion, and lifestyle. By Jeffrey KingHistorian Introduction The Celts were a...
Information is being twisted or completely made up, and fighting it is no easy task. But we...
Image by Frits Ahlefeldt, Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. P.D. Magnus (left), Dr. Cathal Woods (right),...
If, as historians, we took such a turn, we could open up new horizons for historical scholarship....
Since 1964, advertising agencies have sold presidential candidates as if they were cars or soap. On September...
Outlandish rumors helped elect Presidents Jackson and Van Buren and have been with us ever since. From...
In the year 1984, there was self-congratulatory coverage that the dystopia of the novel had not been...
The poster became a cheap transmitter of these various messages and combined visual arts with psychological methods...
The renowned German school of art and design now has its own museum in the town where...
It’s really only in the past three decades that we’ve come to recognize the need to understand...
Long before Chasten Buttigieg became a ‘not-so-secret weapon’ in his husband Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign, another same-sex...
Exploring rich and surprising form of Ceylonese nationalism inflected by late-Victorian radicalism. The Ceylon National Review (1906-1911) was...
Research around Angkor Wat suggests its collapse might be better described as a transformation. By Dr. Alison...
Any U.S. president would do well to heed the likes of Rachel Carson and her successors to...
The name “Europe” comes from ancient Greece and was derived from Europa, the mythological princess of Crete....
Britain’s prehistoric landscapes are depicted in prints and drawings across the British Library’s collections. The prehistoric monuments...
Whether someone is menstruating is none of your business. Even inquiring about it reinforces attitudes and assumptions...
There is still so much we don’t know about this very private woman. And that’s probably the...
She was a great observer of everyday life. Virginia Woolf, that great lover of language, would surely...
He was an upstanding member of the Talmud Torah congregation – until he wasn’t. Bento de Spinoza was a young...
Monasticism developed in part because people were seeking the solace of quiet places But finding solitude was...
Is there a subjectivist alternative? One that starts with evolution? Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor...
It might appear to many that atheism is a modern idea. However, in parts of Asia, particularly...