Women of the past were rulers, warriors, and cultural leaders who shaped the world in indelible ways....
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Her style, like everything Joan did, was a masterpiece. By Dr. Emma Maggie SolbergAssociate Professor of EnglishBowdoin...
Fame and long careers could be achieved on the track. Introduction Chariot racing was very big business in...
It represents a detailed narrative of combat between man and monster, and it hints at the man’s...
The encounter between African religions and Christianity in the Americas produced spiritual systems that were neither simple...
J’ouvert is commemorated across the Caribbean. By Sharine TaylorWriter, Filmmaker, Production Designer Introduction A cloak of black...
Barbed wire telephony reveals a dimension of American technological history that developed outside the pathways typically associated...
Internet Relaty Chat (IRC) illustrates how early internet technologies established conceptual frameworks that shaped the development of...
Linda Hazzard’s career demonstrates how pseudoscientific authority can flourish when social anxiety, regulatory weakness, and charismatic persuasion...
The history of the Black Angels reveals how racial inequality, gendered labor, and medical innovation intersected within...
The history of the OVRA reveals how the Fascist state harnessed surveillance and bureaucracy to manage political...
Nacht und Nebel stands as one of the most revealing examples of how a modern state can...
The endurance of mirror divination into late antiquity and early modernity underscores the persistent human desire to...
The speaking head offered a framework for imagining how far human ingenuity might extend into realms typically...
The Norse belief system was as integral a part of the people’s lives as that of any...
People shifted between certain partly parallel patterns of religious experience, beliefs, and behaviour. Introduction Over the last...
Technology and standardization produced the sameness against which individual difference could rebel. Introduction Technology and fashion have...
Ancient Greek and Roman bodies are often seen as flawless – cast in buff bronze and white...
Paul Henri Thiry d’Holbach stands as one of the most systematic and uncompromising figures of the eighteenth...
The Black church came about when African Americans began to establish their own congregations. Introduction With religious affiliation on the decline, continuing racism...
Coal’s presence in Roman Britain reveals a provincial landscape shaped by environmental opportunity rather than imperial design....
The combination of empirical observation, civic intervention, and evolving environmental theory created a legacy that shaped future...
How an archivist came to see Bethune as a global figure. Introduction When I first landed an...
Victims of “blackbirding” endured horrific working conditions. By Dr. Shoshi ParksAnthropologist and Writer No Pacific Islander was safe from...
How a military institution created to secure imperial authority could evolve into a force capable of reshaping...
The reforms that followed the Drury case formed part of a longer trajectory of efforts to strengthen...
Trends in the development of American literature set in the German capital from around 1900 to the...
How fashion evolved in France in the 1930s and 1940s. By Babeth Étiève-CartwrightHead of TranslationsWorld History Encyclopedia...
The Gestapo’s targeting of immigrants reveals how racial ideology and administrative authority converged to create one of...
The incarceration of Japanese Americans during the Second World War demonstrates how national security concerns can be...