A nationwide move is both hectic and adventurous. Moving itself is enough to make you stressful and...
Month: September 2019
If truly wicked ideas permeate our country, the best way to quell their pernicious influence is to...
New York’s Union Square is an important site in American labor history. One scholar’s research illustrates the...
From public notes and broadsides to catchpennies and printed songs, examining the variety of street literature which...
The history of the Society of Jesus’ first missions is a story of great journeys. Abstract During...
These works represent an artistic encounter between East and West. A Controversial Auction In 2009, two eighteenth-century...
The artist uses her craft to represent and raise awareness of Asian-American history and identity. Jasmine Cho...
They were all about family and work. “And so you know the difficulty in becoming an American....
Some climate scientists have spoken out about the dangers of climate change. But a new study shows...
The Whitney hall was once one of the crown jewels of the museum, alongside the halls of...
Clues from texts, objects, and science shed light on one of the greatest natural disasters in world...
They were considered the youthful bestowers of beauty in all its forms. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The Graces (alsoCharites, sing. Charis)...
What the epigraphic and archaeological evidence have shown. For centuries, worshippers of Artemis flocked to the ancient...
Young, poor, single and a mother of two: This is the profile of most women in the...
If you go by editorial cartoons and T-shirts, you might have the impression that evolution proceeds as...
Hydrogen is the first element in the periodic table and essential for life on Earth. It may...
Despite tea being the signature drink of England, it is, in fact, the strong taste of coffee...
The changing significance of sacred groves (utaki) from medieval to contemporary Okinawa. Abstract This article discusses the...
Tea drinking in Japan became nothing less than an art form. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The Japanese...
Parthia controlled territories that stretched from the Mediterranean in the west to India and China in the...
Once a bustling metropolis, this long-lost Egyptian city flooded, sank, and was forgotten — until archeologists rediscovered...
When it’s tough earning to put bread on the table, the best thing to do is look...
The Marquis de Lafayette’s name graces more city parks and streets than perhaps any other foreigner. If...
Why a 19-year-old Frenchman traded Versailles for Valley Forge. The 19-year-old Marquis de Lafayette had met only...
There is little evidence remaining from the pre-Roman worship, as they left little footprints of their spiritual...
One of history’s most influential civilizations took shape, leaving behind a cultural legacy that survives in part...
The war over-extended the capabilities of the Soviet empire, as other military engagements have helped to bring...
On August 23rd, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union stunned the world by announcing a nonaggression...
Looking at the human exchanges that took place between the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church in...
From onion domes to tsarist-era Russian dialects, evidence of the Russian colonialism remains. Every summer a conga...