Most Jews today are the descendants of the Israelites, as are the Samaritans, only a few of...
Month: February 2020
Is today’s world driven by the game theory, and could it perhaps explain all human interactions? Indeed,...
How Parker’s determination to speak her mind — even when it angered men in positions of power...
Exploring the significance of the 19th-centurty Welsh singer’s ingenious set of images, which until recently were thought...
Ukraine is one of the most religious countries in Europe and has a Christian church whose history...
Volodymyr Zelensky is Ukraine’s best chance for reducing church tension. By Daniel Hanson Last year’s presidential elections...
Ukraine has been occupied since the Chalcolithic (Copper Age) and the Sredny Stog culture from 4500 BCE....
In the Middle Ages, Constantinople was the richest European city and was known as the “Queen of...
The term is misleading since it implies a notion of a self-identifying unity that did not exist....
Jewish Christians predominated in the movement of early Christianity. They bore the brunt of persecution from their...
Architecture is a privileged lens to study collaboration, and its institutional, technological, and personal continuities. Recent reports...
The period was characterized by a fluidity of design accented by a sense of drama. Introduction The...
While the Protestants harshly criticized the cult of images, the Catholic Church ardently embraced the religious power...
Transgender individuals have worse employment outcomes, lower incomes, and higher rates of poverty. The United States Supreme...
The lure of Aphrodite still resonates in Western popular culture today. Introduction Aphrodite is the ancient Greek...
Erotic spells were a popular form of magic in ancient Greece and Rome. Ancient spells were often...
Our own species — Homo sapiens — lived alongside other groups that split off from the same...
According to folklore, such tiny, hairy people as her once roamed the tropical forests alongside modern humans....
By Thom Hartmann Wealthy white men have had the right to vote in America since the beginning...
Many different groups of American Indians with distinct cultures inhabited the western region of North America. Geographic...
Some indigenous peoples of the Americas supported agriculturally advanced societies for thousands of years. Introduction The indigenous...
About 75 percent of adults with disabilities live with an aging parent or caregiver and most are...
Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine was used for several centuries in medieval Europe and the Arab world as...
His aggressive manner of teaching and his outspoken criticism of traditional medical theory made him unwelcome in...
Caesar fought in a civil war that left him undisputed master of the Roman world. Introduction Gaius...
Pompey fought on the side of the Optimates, the conservative faction in the Roman Senate, until he...
The Internet has dramatically changed the ways that people browse, shop for, and purchase their goods. The...
Introduction Reconstruction is the name of the historical period following the American Civil War during which the...
The Constitutional Convention of 1789, following the Revolution, had failed to address slavery, and it took another...
The main legacy of the civilization was its power to inspire, including that of later resistance groups...