The titles featured here (by American authors) have had a profound effect on American life. Introduction Ask...
Month: August 2019
Beginning with a small psalm book that filled a basic need in the devotional lives of colonists,...
There are few rules governing what companies can do – yet people can’t effectively protect their own...
Orwell revisited in the age of Trump. By Tom Englehardt I, Winston Smith… I mean, Tom Engelhardt…...
In addition to the numerous pioneering works of science fiction by which he made his name, H....
In the late 1800s, a U.K. scheme lured lonely bachelors with newspaper advertisements supposedly placed by wealthy...
A financial crash in 1890 convinced him that money was behind the world’s economic problems. By Greg...
Colonial opulence had to be displayed behind closed doors. At first glance, the portrait appears to be...
440 years old and filled with footprints, these aren’t your everyday maps. At the Blanton Museum of...
How did the Columbian Exchange shape food culture in the modern world? Originally published by Newberry Digital...
Their relationships were profoundly instrumental to their vision of social justice that changed America. Anyone who has...
The woman Thoreau once called the “youngest person in Concord”. Henry David Thoreau isn’t usually known for flattering comments...
The Res Gestae was a unique public relations move for the first emperor of the Roman Empire,...
Though his work was little read in the Roman world, it has influenced great thinkers such as...
Are you a student interested in the history and the facts surrounding Australia? If so, you are...
Ever wondered about the origin of universities? If so, this article is going to be of interest...
Critics get the past wrong. Four hundred years after the event, the New York Times has published...
Assisted by Native Americans, they moved – and fought. Introduction In 1861, as Confederate armies prepared to...
Both during slavery and after, the power structures of American society confined many black women to the...
Several of the martial arts which became popular in medieval Japan were introduced from China. By Mark...
Feudalism (hoken seido) began to be widespread in Japan from the beginning of the Kamakura Period (1185-1333...
In 1867, the US bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a tidy sum of $7.2 million....
Franklin was the 14th state of America. If you haven’t heard of it, that’s because it only...
An assignment for Life magazine about poverty in Brazil introduces photographer Gordon Parks to Flávio da Silva...
For nearly a century, Quilombo of Palmares was an Afro-Brazilian state, populated and run by people who...
The language of gender identity wasn’t what it is today. By Jud Esty-Kendall, Afi Yellow-Duke, and Emma...
The Supreme Court will decide in the next year whether sexual orientation and gender identity are covered...
In what ways do we associate movement—the ability to go anywhere and be anyone—with freedom? How do...
In 1776, a 24-year-old Quaker woman named Jemima Wilkinson died of fever, and came back to life...
Israel’s occupation and oppression of Palestinians is either ignored or perceived as required to achieve the end...