There is a desire to label anyone criticizing Israel in any way as “antisemitic”. There is a...
Month: August 2019
Armed conflict in Syria has been a disaster for the area’s cultural heritage. A displaced archaeologist describes...
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why...
The stories behind the pictures. By Diarmid Mogg Martin Fobes woke up to the sound of officers...
More than 200 years ago, a group of Philadelphian reformers had a utopian vision of how prisons...
A small and ornate book opens up to reveal one of the great masterpieces of Renaissance manuscript...
Despite the restrictions women faced, her art collections demonstrate important renaissance themes. Introduction In European history classes,...
She caused a furor when she coined “the banality of evil” to describe mindless acts of Nazi...
True or False? Franklin Delano Roosevelt claimed to be a conservative defender of the nation’s founding ideals....
How the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Venetian empires interacted with each other and how their competition over southeastern...
Ancient Rome and its empire had the concept of asylum at its heart. Its legacy provided inspiration...
Writing under the title of “If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim”, Moustafa Bayoumi stated the...
Despite racist and anti-immigrant scapegoating, data shows that most American terrorists are resentful White men inspired by...
Examining what prompted the backlash of black British people against the police. By Rowena Hillel and Vicky...
About 3000 resisters, many under the age of 25, were tried in German military courts in France...
Three important factors are driving domestic terrorism. The recent mass murder at Walmart in El Paso was...
Typical narratives about 1919’s anti-black collective violence, especially in school textbooks, often conclude abruptly. This summer marks...
They were condemned to death after a trial many called unjust. By James Jeffrey Houston marked an...
Many of the most commonly used election terms have a long linguistic history, stretching from ancient Rome...
When the Beetle was first introduced, Americans had never seen anything like it. Among art car enthusiasts,...
The field of neuroaesthetics uses neuroscience to understand how art affects our brains, both when we’re making...
As the British Empire became an unaffordable burden, planning for India’s independence quickly ran into trouble. Introduction...
The partition of India led to more than a million deaths. A scholar argues how British royal,...
What happens in El Norte doesn’t stay in El Norte. By Rebecca Gordon It’s hard to believe...
W.T. Stead’s 1885 account of the process by which wealthy Londoners procured teenagers for sex became a...
The first Africans in the colonies came from Angola 400 years ago and were initially captured by...
Republicans favor of giving the president more power has dropped from 70% to 51% in the last...
For many voters, wearing political paraphernalia is their personal connection to a candidate. On April 30, 1789,...
“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”...
The changes the 20th century brought to American politics continue to hold true in the 21st century....