Among the earliest inventions were the abacus, the “shadow clock,” and the first flying machines. Introduction The...
History
English writers found federalism attractive because it seemed a solution to the problems posed by Europe’s emerging...
The Bibliophile’s vision of the bookless future is in some ways prescient. This article, Octave Uzanne’s “The...
People have used drum telegraphy to communicate with each other from far away for centuries. Developed and...
How, if at all, did religious communities change their inherited traditions in the midst of new surroundings?...
Three hundred years is a long time to suffer a bad reputation. The sheer longevity of the...
Little is known about their lifestyle due to the numerous conflicts and combinations of cultures that occurred...
It was built in five constructional stages spanning a period from around 3000 to 1500 BCE. Stonehenge...
The early depictions of hell were meant to use fear as a moral guide to help others....
In 63 B.C.E. Pompey was invited to settle a dispute between two Maccabeans. Thus came the Romans....
A place for the performance of rituals of congregation. Abstract The discovery of the early bronze age...
The close of the 19th century also witnessed dramatic discoveries in the new science of bacteriology that...
A comparison of the concept of the “general will” in revolutionary France. Introduction The concept of the...
Reexamining Charlemagne through evidence from his own time, as a ruler of a recognizably European empire and...
Other Mesoamerican cultures also engaged in human sacrifice and built tzompantlis, but the Mexica brought it to...
Examining nine different civilizations that practiced ritual human sacrifice. Originally published by ESRI, republished with embed permission...
This was intended to be “read” by intarsia workers (artists who inlay sections of wood to decorate...
This article, London’s Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics during the Great Plague (1665), was...
In the 1950s, ‘coming out’ meant acknowledging sexual orientation. Today, the term is used by a broad...
In primary texts, figures are addressed by medieval authors using both male and female pronouns interchangeably and...
Leprosy and compulsory segregation were connected through the ‘colonial gaze’. Abstract This article is looking at colonial...
As the Union grew during the two centuries after the founding, state constitutions increasingly included enumerations of...
What if we understand the play as a story about the disabled body as it was configured...
Antony was popular as a tribune and sought vengeance for Caesar before joining Cleopatra and falling out...
Jefferson, ever sanguine, was merely trying to make the best of a wretched scenario. A yellow-fever epidemic...
He wrote of everything from daily death counts to quack remedies. Introduction In early April, writer Jen...
His reign is commonly considered to mark the end of the golden period in the history of...
The bronze colossus originally portrayed Nero, thereafter Commodus, before it was given its present appearance in the...
Examining the slow transition whereby reputable practitioners differentiated themselves from ‘quacks’. Abstract Trust is not automatically granted...
Kircher’s investigation can be seen as an important early step to understanding contagion. This article, “Invisible Little...