The turmoil of the English Civil War in the 1640s and 1650s generated political and institutional upheaval,...
Year: 2019
Their original name came from their belief in economic equality. Introduction The Diggers were a group of Protestant radicals in England,...
The longtime prime minister has reshaped Israel in profound ways. The military is stronger but Palestinian suffering...
The Herodian dynasty is named after Herod the Great, who was recognized as king of the Jews...
Israel was a regional superpower, but unable to retain its independence in the face of Assyrian imperialism....
Slavery, long banned and universally condemned, persists in many corners of the world, victimizing tens of millions...
A utilitarian machine with a suicidal ghost inside. J S Mill (1873) by George Frederick Watts /...
By Dr. Christina Starmans / 01.06.2017 Postdoctoral Associate in Psychology Yale University When was the last time...
South-side portal (detail), Church of Ste. Pierre, 1115-1130, Moissac, France (photo: Simon, Creative Commons) By Dr. Shannon Pritchard...
Cloister, Fontenay Abbey, 12th century By Christine M. Bolli / 08.08.2015 PhD Candidate in Art History University of California,...
Roman religion and tolerance for others drastically began to change following the Edict of Milan. Introduction Constantinian...
Balances of power and ambitious pursuits. Introduction A triumviratus is literally a college of three men. In the ancient...
Exploring relationships between neoliberal restructuring and changes in inter-generational relations. Abstract Through an ethnographic case-study of a...
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist? Why were so many prominent modernist writers and philosophers...
She was a famous activist in her day, arguably the most famous in the world. What is...
To circumscribe the Reformation solely within the sphere of theological disputation is to mask the complexity of...
The Church dominated the culture and society of Medieval Europe so powerfully that its people thought of...
A study investigate how Phoenicians integrated with the Sardinian communities they settled. By Tessa Gregory The Phoenicians...
Phoenician is a Canaanite language closely related to Hebrew. Introduction Very little is known about the Canaanite...
Traveling to Paris for a divorce became all the rage in the early 1920s. It was one...
The presence of Americans in Paris stretches back to the days of the American Revolution. For many...
It was 100 years ago this month that Benito Mussolini created the fascist party in Italy. Today,...
Captain Ching Shih stares death in the face, as she has done many times in her life....
Puzzling questions are the focus of the exhibition Spectacular Mysteries: Renaissance Drawings Revealed. By Tristan BravinderSocial Media...
What place does the paper book have in our increasingly all-digital present? What place does the paper...
Even as researchers find loneliness is epidemic, people young and old are relearning how to hang out....
A century ago, a three-minute call from New York City to San Francisco on a landline cost...
Long before ‘sup’ and ‘hwu’ there was ‘Hw r u ts mng?’ From “lol” to “brb,” the...
In the early modern period, political activity among Jews was limited exclusively to the Jewish community. Introduction...
The beginnings of Hamburg’s Jewish community are linked to the Jews’ expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula at...