Glass beads, more than any other type of artifact, help us make sense of the last 600...
Month: July 2019
Perhaps there’s room now for a type of history that moves smoothly between human and animal subjectivities....
The period of the Reformation (roughly 1500-1700) witnessed an unprecedented wave of changes in religion, thought, society,...
The early years of printing in Western Europe was a time of astonishing productivity. Originally published by...
Monasteries in the Early Middle Ages already had rudimentary rules and guidelines. Introduction The monastic orders of...
The Church regulated and defined an individual’s life, literally, from birth to death and was thought to...
What did medieval Christians believe about women’s nature and social roles? How did they express these beliefs...
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Christianity has heard the term ‘Church Fathers’ but far less...
Elizabeth Warren’s newest plan goes beyond limiting the private role in mass incarceration, and seeks to prevent...
How were spices used by medieval Europeans, and why were spices so valuable in medieval Europe? Originally...
Images of a cockatoo in Frederick II of Sicily’s falconry book reveal how trade routes around Australia’s...
The Black Death struck in 1348, 1362, 1368, 1381, and continued even into the 18th century. 1348...
The history of surgery is a fascinating collection of knowledge from various civilizations dating back up to...
In Europe between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, fireworks displays were performances that told a story or...
Half a continent west of the 13 colonies, the Lakota Sioux were founding a nation of their...
From the coins we count to the democracy we practice, the mother country’s influence is holding strong...
Who identified as “American” during the Revolution? To what extent did the American Revolution serve the interests...
If we’re cowardly, we must steel ourselves; if we’re tired, we must wake ourselves; if we’re paralyzed,...
Exploring the changing meaning and significance of the American Revolution during the 18th and 19th Centuries. Originally...
In 1775, opposition became armed rebellion. Many of the participants of the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, including...
Widely held beliefs in eugenic “science” and pervasive fear of foreigners led the US Congress to pass...
Exploring the subject of immigration in U.S. history with particular attention to the two and a half...
It is a sad day for our country when comparisons between the leader of Nazi Germany and...
More than seventy British men and women were convicted – mostly in secret trials – of working...
After WWI, German psychiatrists diagnosed traumatized soldiers as having “hysteria,” othering the men to somewhat disastrous effect....
While in the Balkans, Celtic tribes managed to conquer several Greek, Illyrian, and Thracian armies, carving out...
The Aeneid is Virgil’s masterpiece that he completed after eleven years of intensive work. Originally published by...
While Congress stalls, you can take other kinds of actions to help immigrants in transition, in detention,...
Maybe, maybe not, but it certainly didn’t do what it’s authors intended. Introduction For as long as...
A law designed to repair flaws in the fabric of American justice also created new ones. At...