Larger brains lead to a broader social network. Human society rewards individuals who can handle complex social...
Month: July 2020
Middlemen often photographed their wares after receiving them from the tombaroli (grave-robbers). Introduction Over 20,000 precious art...
Elements of racist ideology have long been present in and justified by white Christianity in the United...
Nationalism (or “100% Americanism”), Protestant Christianity, and white supremacy became inextricably linked. Randall J. Stephens responds to...
The ruling allows vital public education funding to be siphoned away to private religious schools. By Andrew...
The idea of organized satanic witchcraft was invented in Europe by church authorities, who at first were...
Some bestiary descriptions explained a creature’s Christian significance while others focused on physical characteristics. Introduction The bestiary...
Their mission was not only to convert people but especially kings and rulers, thereby making the people...
The Edict of Milan made the Roman Empire officially neutral with regard to religious worship – and...
Women were key to the Democratic Party’s transformation in the 1920s and 1930s away from its socially...
The Republican Party had established itself as the party of reform in the 19th century, not the...
The meaning of the Emancipation Proclamation, for those at the time and for us today. As he...
Robert Smalls commandeered a Confederate ship to escape from slavery in South Carolina. By Meredith Good Two...
As the South Carolina city prepared to break from the Union, its people swung between nostalgia and...
By the end of the century, Congress had authorized a national archive of maps. Introduction In the...
This was the first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America...
Women spies of the American Revolution. Introduction Throughout the Revolutionary War, there are stories of heroism; those...
Two wives of the American Revolution – one a patriot, one a spy. By Victoria Cooney Lucy...
Examining some myths about women during the Revolutionary War and trying to find the truth. We all...
An 18th-century guide taught Americans how to eat simply but sumptuously. By Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald...
They may not have been hosting a cookout, but they did know how to imbibe and celebrate....
The planet that we live on is so vast and wonderful that sometimes, we tend to forget...
This informative article provides smart prompts about how to acquire student entrepreneur grants to initiate your own...
Poe’s story follows many traditions of Gothic fiction and is often analyzed as an allegory about the...
A full reading of Poe’s work. By Edgar Allan Poe (1842) The Masque of the Red Death...
We need to end systemic racism and the militarism that makes it even deadlier—from Kabul to Atlanta...
The militarization of the U.S. police and its increasing use of deadly violence has been largely imported...
Exploring the knot of spiritual dilemmas played out in the poem and its roots in Melville’s trip...
Jewish practitioners participated in the exchange of knowledge between Christian and Muslim writers and practitioners. The Book...
While Antony was consul, it appeared that little could be accomplished. Cicero was concerned about his own...