From the domed ice towers of Yazd to the shaded vaults beneath Mughal palaces, the quest to...
History
The medieval world’s mastery of cooling and preservation systems stands as one of the most sophisticated examples...
What began in a modest Minnesota workshop as an effort to keep strawberries from spoiling on rural...
The American Founders inherited from England a profound distrust of military power, tested it in the crucible...
The citizen’s wary gaze, formed in the crucible of revolution, slavery, and urban unrest, remains fixed upon...
The persistence of racialized violence, economic exploitation, and social surveillance reveals that the crisis of policing is...
The working class of ancient Rome remains, in many respects, a hidden majority. Their lives rarely occupy...
The immobilization of peasants within the feudal order was neither accidental nor peripheral: it was fundamental to...
The history of economic inequality in America reveals a story less of steady progress than of cycles,...
The paradox of proscription was that it cloaked illegality in the garments of law. Citizens were not...
The record of Varus, Louis XVI, Nicholas II, and Mussolini demonstrates that the greatest dangers to armies...
The Cohen Plan stands as a striking illustration of how fragile democratic institutions can be subverted by...
The act of rewriting history is as old as history itself. To revise is not inherently to...
Far from being a sudden reaction in the 1910s and 1920s, fundamentalism represented the culmination of a...
The evangelical takeover of the Republican Party was not a sudden rupture but the culmination of decades...
To be sure, Roman emperors were always expected to spend lavishly (on temples, forums, aqueducts, and games)...
The grandeur of Westminster Hall, the symbolism of the Wilton Diptych, and his insistence on ceremonial majesty...
The history of the House of Saud reveals a monarchy sustained by a combination of religious alliance,...
The funeral speech offers the audience a model to be imitated and thus contributes to the timeless...
They “freed” themselves at death – their wills presenting a rare opportunity to make personal legal decisions...
What had once been largely a domestic, community-managed process became a commercial enterprise characterized by standardized services,...
Compiled in the seventh century BCE for the Library of Ashurbanipal, the NME transformed a diverse body...
The investigation of coitus interruptus in the Middle Ages forces historians to navigate a terrain defined as...
From the plague riots of late medieval Europe to the COVID-19 demonstrations of the twenty-first century, the...
Gaining a deeper understanding of the goals and meanings of the idealized art of the Classical Greek...
Whether spoken before the gods of Rome, a medieval lord, a constitutional text, or a dictator, the...
The history of presidential emergency powers in the United States reveals a persistent pattern: crises serve as...
Quezon was instrumental in lobbying the U.S. Government to grant the islands a greater level of autonomy....
An artist drew the rebels as they stood trial, leaving behind an invaluable record. By Dr. Kate...
By The British Museum Byzantine Egypt Egypt’s dry climate has preserved a range and abundance of architecture,...