Disease is thought to be caused by intrusion or soul loss, evil spirits, sorcerers, or broken taboos....
Month: March 2020
This would have been placed in a grave to embody the shaman’s power that would help the...
For fundamentalists, whose brains are not accustomed to thinking critically, rational arguments don’t make a dent with...
Christian fundamentalists have made a spectacular show of their rejection of modern science in response to the...
Menelaus, and others like him, reduced the physical world to a purely geometric one. By Mark CartwrightHistorian...
The Hippocratic philosophy on health care provision applied standards and ethical rules that are still valid today....
From cows to controversy, the smallpox vaccine triumphed. Not malaria. Not cholera. Not AIDS, influenza, measles, or...
Finding pockets of hope in the great flu pandemic. On September 12, 1918, Dr. Royal S. Copeland put the...
The toxic properties of arsenic were known by Hippocrates in 370 BCE. By John Frith Introduction Arsenic...
In 1495 an epidemic of a new and terrible disease broke out among the soldiers of Charles...
The first legal text is the Law of the Twelve Tables, dating from the mid-5th century BCE....
One of the earliest dateable events in Athenian history is the creation of the Draconian law code,...
Parents around the country are facing uncertainty and anxiety about the coronavirus or Covid-19 and that’s paired...
The poor face more obstacles in life. On the fundamental question of why some people are rich...
This massive migration to California transformed the state’s landscape and population. Introduction On January 8, 1848, James...
Looking at the effete 19th-century Eastern urbanite who traveled to the Wild West in quest of a...
Although Lincoln’s image in this and the British comic press was typically pejorative, there were moments of...
Monroe was instrumental in shaping the modern literary treatment of Abraham Lincoln. Introduction In 1919, when Harriet...
Scurvy killed more than two million sailors between the time of Columbus’s transatlantic voyage and the rise...
The Code of Hammurabi and writings from ancient Greeks mention this “lung wasting” disease and their treatments...
Buying or selling a property effectively is not as easy as it may seem, but, a popular...
Civil disobedience can be distinguished from other active forms of protest, such as rioting, because of its...
Lela Mae and the others were unwitting pawns in a segregationist game. Introduction After three days on...
Russians refer to the event as the “Caribbean Crisis.” Cubans refer to it as the “October Crisis.”...
The use of forced labor and the development of labor camps to “re-educate” anyone deemed as “bourgeois”...
The city sought to sell bonds to pay for the war effort, while bringing its citizens together...
The so-called ‘Spanish flu’ didn’t actually come from Spain. What else do people often misunderstand about this...
How has Givenchy shaped the landscape of fashion, and what is this house of fashion doing to...
Comprehensive immigration reform has eluded Congress for years, moving controversial policy decisions to presidents and courts. By...
Bolivar has become known as the chief architect of Latin America’s independence. Introduction Simón José Antonio de...