The face of gambling as a pastime has changed a lot over the years. What once was...
History
Reasons given throughout our history for protesting the authority of the federal government and perceiving the State...
An ardent believer in national greatness, the sixth president thought American should dominate the hemisphere. As the...
The outmoded legacies of Calhoun’s arguments about slavery, like the legacy of slavery itself, are still very...
Scent and magic have been entwined in our imaginations for centuries. Introduction Most perfume ads suggest that...
Few other societies have reveled in and revered the deliberate and purposeful killing of men and women...
Our posh word for werewolf, ‘lycanthrope,’ is derived from the ancient Greek lykanthrōpos. 1. Yes, the ancient...
For pagan Northmen, elves, dwarves, and other mystical beings were very real. By Irene Manea Introduction Elves...
Investigating the complex of racial and cultural stereotypes that made the Circassian beauty such a sideshow spectacle....
The world’s obsession with Ancient Egypt and mummies goes back to Roman times. In November 1922, when...
We find a vast range of their artistic representations in frescos, vase paintings, and sculptures. Introduction Sacred...
Bored with banana bread? Whip up a classical feast with nine recipes from ancient Greece and Rome....
The Roman writer Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) was the first to describe cloves in the West....
Mary Washington raised George and his four siblings mainly alone, imbuing in George many of his best...
They to retain their languages and cultures as the assimilationist experiment in education unfolded. Introduction As Indigenous...
Less-remembered than the screaming white students are those who said nothing and tacitly approved of their reaction....
It often happens that museum spaces are a work of art in and of themselves. They look...
In approximately 630 BCE, someone in the Anatolian kingdom of Lydia stamped a piece of precious metal....
This agora was destroyed by invasions by the Germanic Heruli and Visigoths in 267 CE and 396...
The city has long been a diverse laboratory where retailers study consumer behavior. In 1926, Los Angeles...
Some consider superstition a useless turn away from logic, while others may be fine with the casual...
Though certainly interrelated, there is a difference between ‘western civilization’ and ‘western thinking’. Introduction [In October 2018],...
The Founders were clear that circumstances, like a pandemic, can arise that require public officials to take...
The years between 1820 and 1865 in the United States might be described as one long era...
Few people embody the contradictions of U.S. history like the author of the Star Spangled Banner. Introduction...
We understand these letters to be circumstantial. They were not written as systematic theology or as treatises...
Pliny’s letter to Trajan is significant as one of the earliest descriptions of the Christian movement from...
The works of Eusebius provide much of our information on early Christianity. Introduction Eusebius Pamphili (aka Eusebius...
Humans left Africa to settle all across the world, probably multiple times. Introduction Previous evidence suggested that...
As surface water diminishes in the Western U.S., people are drilling deeper wells – and tapping into...