The tragedy of treating people as property has left only scattered scraps to hint at their cultures...
Month: June 2019
Can we learn something about the right’s strategic coherence without emulating either their ideas or their contempt...
Current explanations for why humans dance tend to follow one of two approaches. Dancing is a human...
Defamiliarizing fame by exploring its roots in the ancient world. Introduction “Fame is a bee,” Emily Dickinson...
America has had an on-again, off-again relationship with political corruption that goes all the way back to...
Examining the act of sharing food during a time of war, even across enemy lines, is a...
Welcome to the kaleidoscopic universe of Wild West history, where outlaws return from the dead with vampiric...
The journey begins with a quiet academic living in Istanbul who receives a cryptic message that will...
The Roman Republic emerged out of what one historian called “the ashes of the monarchy.” Introduction Western...
Medieval feasts sometimes had a moral tossed in with the tale. In the Middle Ages, before forks...
The typically idealized picture of Socrates is not the whole story, and it gives us no indication...
Growing up American in India instilled in me a deep curiosity about foreign lands – including my...
Examining the intersection of religion and politics in the evolution of the Sikh tradition in the pre-colonial,...
The often overlapping religious and diplomatic networks acted in concert to advance, for example, Protestant concerns. By...
It made sense for the Quakers to cultivate an exaggerated presence in order to make their voices...
Netanyahu has embraced authoritarian and racist heads of state and of political parties, including parties with deep...
Considering the spread of Judaism from the viewpoint of other cultures in the Ancient Near East. Introduction...
Examining the transitions from “selective polytheism” to henotheism and subsequently, from henotheism to global monotheism. Introduction In...
President Trump plans to put a 5% tariff on every Mexican good that crosses the border unless...
Trump has imposed trade restrictions left and right, on allies and adversaries. Trump has two tools at...
The story behind the unusual form of a French chandelier made in the early 1800s. Introduction One...
Hot on the heels of the French revolution — by way of extravagant orgies, obscure taxonomies, and...
Popular uprisings and resistance to taxation played havoc with the nine departments into which the National Assembly...
Louis XIV repeatedly reminded his commanders that 1693 had to be viewed as the year of decision....
Last year it was the residents of Paradise, California who paid the price, when their city burned...
Pastoralism is a central part of many Africans’ identity. But how and when did this way of...
The viral genetics of Hepatitis B is helping to trace the history and movement of Australia’s first...
Some are using Birthright trips to draw attention to the Israeli occupation, its policy of oppression, and...
The best way to honor D-Day veteran’s sacrifice is to work for that elusive, but achievable eternal...
While D-Day was extraordinarily significant, it was neither the decisive battle of the Second World War nor...