The Tanegashima was more than a weapon. It was a historical fulcrum, a site where technology, identity,...
History
Puckle’s invention didn’t change warfare in his own era, but it contributed to an ongoing conversation about...
Its story is a testament to the contradiction at the heart of modern war: that even the...
It is likely that the Greek brothels were similar to those of Rome, described by numerous authors and...
Anyone who sold their body for the entertainment of others or exposed themselves to the public gaze,...
The study of late medieval sex trafficking makes clear that poverty and limited economic opportunities for women...
Understanding Bronze Age Gaza demands a critical eye toward modern narratives that impose fixed identities on ancient...
To study the demographic composition of the Holy Land in the medieval era is to reject the...
The modern history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resists finality. It is a story saturated with memory, loss,...
To write the history of the middle class is to write the history of modernity, not from...
The history of tax avoidance is a history of inequality made durable not by failure, but by...
Slot machines have occupied a unique space in American culture for more than a century. From modest...
To understand Roy Cohn is not to understand a villain. It is to understand a system that...
The presence of troops in American streets no longer shocks. That may be the most lasting erosion...
By preserving the past of a regime they overthrew, the French revolutionaries revealed a deeper commitment: to...
This termination reveals the fragility of institutions that once seemed stable. It exposes the ease with which...
The lie detector is not a machine of truth but of anxiety. It arises from a fear...
By crafting an unmediated relationship with the public, Roosevelt undermined the primacy of traditional journalism. He did...
The Spanish did not simply impose their will upon a static world. They disrupted a delicate ecological...
To understand this plague is not to isolate a pathogen but to examine a system – of...
It remains one of modernity’s unsolved puzzles, a sleep from which, perhaps, medical history itself has yet...
The trial of Socrates is a foundational episode in the history of dissent. It exposes the fragility...
In our own time, where control of information remains a central axis of power, the lessons of...
The past is not a possession. It cannot be legislated into stability. It is always under negotiation....
This global policing of the past should concern anyone who believes in democratic ideals. For history is...
The myth of civic virtue as the foundation of citizenship has persisted for over two millennia, but...
To speak of a medieval surveillance state is anachronistic, but not entirely misplaced. Though decentralized and diffuse,...
The troubles and suffering of Jewish immigrants. By Dr. Bernard Weinstein1Emeritus Professor of Applied EconomicsUniversity of North...
The more we historicize prediction, the more we see its role not only as a mirror of...
The modern gaze, filtered through lenses, algorithms, and scans, is heir to a much older logic. What...