Emile Herman Grubbe discovered the x-rays could cure, but he was right for the wrong reasons. Radiation...
Month: July 2019
For over 500 years, scientific and artistic collaborations have enhanced and promoted medical knowledge. Introduction From the early...
The use of this technique is meant to empower the sovereign to control subjects who collectively might...
By Steven Fife During his reign as dictator from 49-44 BC, Julius Caesar had a number of notable impacts...
How did the Ottomans shape the political and religious history of early modern Europe? Originally published by...
The splintering of the medieval church ushered in a volatile new era of increased anxiety, tension, and...
Although magic and witchcraft had existed since antiquity, early modern Europe underwent a growth in anxiety about...
How monks, friars and monastic sites became associated with magic in popular tradition, resulting in a lasting...
The devil, once a part of the sacred truth, could now be seen as a fragment of...
Demons and artists, it seems, pull from the same bag of tricks. They take ordinary matter and...
An analysis forces us to ask what we mean by political agency. By Laura Spinney Eleanor of...
Although Ptolemy III and Berenice II were cousins, they proclaimed themselves siblings as children of Ptolemy II...
The origins of Iraqi cuisine and continued popularity. Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning “between two rivers”) was...
The conquered areas of Elam, Media, Lydia, Babylonia, Egypt, and several eastern Iranian tribes were more or...
By the late Bronze Age, the Hurrians had been assimilated into surrounding cultures in the Near East....
Discussing the importance of these civilizations, and of how we can better assess and understand their legacy...
Big money has always played an important role in U.S. political campaigns, but its influence has been...
As mid-century Americans moved to cities, Cara’s film helped to idealize isolated white communities. It’s a Wonderful...
It’s a Wonderful Life prescribed community and empathy as the remedy to a callous economic system. From...
From Britain to Hungary to Italy, the far right is on the rise. openDemocracy investigations over the...
How does Upton Sinclair’s representation of this community in The Jungle compare to the accounts of sociologists...
What were working conditions like in Chicago during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What efforts...
The Raise the Wage Act is an opportunity for Congress to restore dignity to work and stability...
If you were lucky enough to exist in the wealthiest sets of society… The “Gilded Age,” a...
Let’s adventure back to Colonial America—a time of exploration, revolution, taverns and….fast food? Yes, that’s right, fast...
April 1865 marked the beginning of a new battle for American abolitionists. On the same morning that...
“The first day I devoted to bidding a sad, though silent farewell to my people; for I...
North Korea has embarked on an accelerated buildup of weapons of mass destruction and modernization of its...
The latitude line passing between the North and the South has separated generations of families. The Korean...
The ancients constructed the pagodas complying with design principles based on the arithmetic and geometric proportional systems....