The Etymologiae was copied so often by scribes and transmitted so widely that it was second only...
History
Insights into the lives of African Americans at Arlington and other plantations in the Upper South before...
They created self-contained enclaves characterized by a southern Protestantism in sharp contrast to Mexican Catholicism. The defeat...
Community care is at the heart of Indigenous response. In Indian Country, there is a collective experience...
Religious orthodoxy was critical during this period of the Counter Reformation and was enforced by the Inquisition...
The earliest written works in China are ghost stories and myths. By Emily MarkHistorian Introduction Chinese literature...
Little Richard honed his craft as a teenage drag queen. We see the influence of gay contemporaries...
World War Two saw a massive increase in weapon types and technology. Some didn’t work out quite...
From Zeppelin airships to propaganda leaflet drops, aerial combat was used on a large scale for the...
Publius Cornelius Tacitus (l. c. 56 – c. 118 CE) was a Roman historian, active throughout the reign of...
It was founded c.814 BCE by the legendary Phoenician queen Dido and increased in size after an...
Examining ‘suspicious reading’ – allied reading – or reading in solidarity. By Stephen SquibbDoctoral Candidate in EnglishHarvard...
Even toward the end of her life, the writer revealed a youthful zest for life and art....
The brilliant, eclectic thinker who wrote the classic dystopian novel Brave New World.. At six feet four and...
The family one was born into in Byzantium greatly determined one’s social status and profession in adult...
Honor Ceres, the goddess of wheat, with this ancient recipe. Introduction Although Ceres (Greek Demeter) was in...
After winning the Civil War and living in the White House, he decided to see the world....
Deaths were justified by prevailing ideologies both in Westminster and among the British public. Chief Mato-tope of...
Van Helmont was an heir of Paracelsus’s thought and movement who went to lengths in later years...
Achilles was too proud and bad-tempered for his own good, and his reckless rage would cost both...
Exploring how manuscripts reveal the evolution of the tale of Troy in ancient Greek and Latin traditions....
The Pope and the president both opted to look away from the greatest humanitarian crisis of our...
The timing of the assassination made Easter Sunday 1865 a particularly important—and confusing—occasion. Shot on Good Friday...
These men fled to a variety of destinations, including modern-day Canada, the Caribbean, and France. I’m investigating...
The pulverizing defeat at Hattin had left most of the Crusader strongholds without enough soldiers to defend...
The rebellious Arabian tribes declared that their pact with Muhammad was personal and that they felt no...
America’s racial past is hardly past but rather powerfully connects past and present. Even amid the continuing...
Police interaction with black people can be much more insidious than these headline-grabbing moments we’re seeing today....
It would take several decades of legal action and years of nonviolent direct action to spark real...
It was not until 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education and later 1964 with the Civil...