Though their reproductive choices were still unacceptably limited, pre-modern Christian women did have some options. Introduction The...
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They did not run haphazardly into the woods, but established creative and subversive escape strategies. Historians once...
In China, many Buddhists hope for birth in a buddha-land so they can complete their path under...
The CCP has little to celebrate in terms of what it has done for China. Its chief...
It was not until the Goryeo period that royal patronage focused on the production of a specific...
Combining archaeological evidence, aerial scans and machine learning algorithms, researchers modeled how this medieval city grew over...
Most Americans do not realize that even in the supposedly liberal North, black students were excluded from...
Exploring Graeco-Roman reading culture through one of its best-preserved and most lavishly-illustrated artefacts. This article, Reading Like...
Worship of Thoth began in Lower Egypt most likely in the Pre-Dynastic Period (c. 6000-3150 BCE). Introduction...
This fuels rampant violence in Mexico, contributing to the country’s tens of thousands of homicides every year....
For over a century, the Mexican authorities have sought to extract money from the drug trade by...
For 300 years, Mexico was a Spanish colony and the center of a huge administrative area called...
The post-Diaz Mexican state sponsored the creation of a mural movement in an effort to express and...
Peruvian Carlos Baca Flor excelled in the study of the nude model and Colombian artist Francisco A....
“Simultaneously representing, complicating, and furthering the discourse on the Appalachian region and its cultures.” By Dr. Katherine...
A scholar of the Ottoman Empire discusses a history of Palestinians’ claims to land being ignored. By...
Being in debt was once an artful promenade — the process of eluding creditors through disguise and...
The first recorded use of a Jolly Roger ‘black flag’ is on the ship of Emmanuel Wynne,...
Some of the more common expressions and slang terms that pirates, and mariners in general, used. Introduction...
The discovery has served to enhance our understanding of this fleeting moment of ancient Mediterranean history. Introduction...
Networks of conservative Christians are working to spread its ideologies in the political sphere. Introduction A precipitous...
The political alliance between American evangelicals and Israel’s right wing may have peaked during the Trump administration....
Doomsday, 1433. In York, after dark. By James Williford A red curtain. Painted stars. Actors in hoses,...
These mosaics and frescoes are the result of patronage by a wealthy intellectual and high-ranking official. Introduction...
An historian of the industry explains that drug companies once opposed patents altogether. Introduction The United States,...
Nearest was known as a skilled distiller who specialized in a process known as sugar maple charcoal...
Discovery of late Stone Age jugs suggest that intentionally fermented beverages existed at least as early as the Neolithic period (c. 10,000 BC).[2]...
Politics and the running of the government were limited to a small number of wealthy people. Radicals...
Digging deeply into the nation’s past can help illuminate the struggles facing the U.S. today. By Dr....
The ring was tasked to provide General Washington information on British Army operations in New York City....