Communicating the diversity of the ancient Mediterranean. By Paula Gaither, Elisa McAtee, Kenneth Lapatin, and David Saunders...
Month: March 2021
What is iconography? And how do you use the iconographic method to analyze art? How to Do...
Are human beings increasingly becoming slaves to technology and social media? Answering this question can be a...
Heads are a frequent motif appearing in all phases of Paracas art, and severed human heads have...
Paracans had the means to support a rich culture and forge reciprocal trade relationships with other Early...
Described as fiercely independent by contemporary Greco-Roman accounts, the Nabataeans were annexed into the Roman Empire. Introduction...
The Babylon ruins, once the capital of Nebuchadnezzar’s empire, are among some of the world’s oldest and...
People can have preconceptions about love and relationships. To many millennials, the idea that people of their...
The theft of our democracy doesn’t happen in a violent coup but in a thousand legalistic cuts...
The For the People Act aims to fix an election system that pushes people of color to...
At the turn of the 20th century, one young black editor implored his peers: ‘Let us make...
Cameras played a critical role in the quest for social equality for Black Americans in the post-slavery...
The campaign to police the civil rights-era Ku Klux Klan offers clear lessons. During his confirmation hearing...
The Byzantine Empire has recently picked up interest among far-right and conspiracist circles. Here’s how they get...
The Byzantines began creating portable mosaic icons by setting small tesserae into wax or resin on wood...
These mosaics illustrate the ways Hagia Sophia became entangled in and responded to theological controversies and more....
Unresolved race matters from the past intersect with twenty-first century activism to counter the continued devaluation of...
Thousands of gay employees were fired or forced to resign from the federal workforce. Introduction The Red...
Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States of America, gave the name Capitol Hill to the...
The ancient Greeks often did not leave risky choices up to individuals alone. Introduction As a scholar...
Moving ahead, it is necessary to understand what Trump’s ongoing popularity says about America. If President Trump...
Honoring the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. My project, Mug Shot Portraits: Women of the...
Studying history is like detective work—especially when the rebellion of Black women has been left out of...
Neanderthals had the capacity to perceive and produce human speech. When the ancestors of anatomically-modern non-Africans came...
Western modern historical linguistics dates from the late-18th century. It grew out of the earlier discipline of...
So many singles are choosing to sign up to a dating platform these days because it is...
They are accelerated by social media, encouraged by former President Trump, and weaponized in a way not...
Belief in conspiracy theories is the product of normal human psychology, but they can be extremely dangerous....
Of all the causes to which Galileo’s image has been applied, freedom of thought and expression is...
Exploring the doctrinal positions of the Church in the context of the Western intellectual disputes around the...