A woman tells the story of her Holocaust survival through her embroidered art. “I am not going...
History
An exhibit touring many sites where Jewish culture and medicine intersect. By Paula Wasley Introduction Your bubbe was not...
Any idea of separation of church and state was anathema until our Framers, knowing this history, guaranteed...
The fact that the Puritans had left England to escape religious persecution did not mean that they...
The text of the inscription is a statement by Darius I of Persia, written three times in...
Marx was a seminal figure in twentieth-century landscape design and plant conservation. By Tom Christopher Born in...
Sentenced to death but acquitted in a public trial based upon his father’s appeal. The Story According...
The early Achaemenid kings may or may not have been adherents of Zoroastrianism but that religion would...
Whether we like it or not, John C. Calhoun is still very much with us today. Originally...
Why aren’t Delaware and Georgia included and why did he combine four northeastern colonies into one? The...
The Spanish saw nothing of value in the indigenous culture and set out to systematically destroy everything...
Trade routes spanned China in early Shang dynasty times, but it was from mid-Zhou times that commerce...
How did extraction, production, and exchange shape the physical and cultural landscape of North America? Originally published...
Introduction Manuscripts and printed books—like today’s museums, archives, and libraries—provide glimpses into how people have perceived the...
A handful of manuscripts remain which give researchers valuable insights into medieval science. Introduction Medieval doctors had...
Come early medieval medicine has become real medicine, not scribal ignorance. Abstract The medical writings of early...
Ancient cultures left behind extraordinary memorials which were used for mortuary cults during the epoques in which...
Some of the burials in the Palaeolithic period raise the possibility of very early forms of ancestor...
Hallie Quinn Brown and other “homespun heroines”. Hallie Quinn Brown knew the power of black women and...
She was a famous activist in her day, arguably the most famous in the world. By Tom...
Many kingdoms were elective historically, though the candidates were typically only from the family of the deceased...
Only divine authority can judge unjust monarchs and any attempt to depose, dethrone, or restrict their powers...
It is claimed to have been the most common medical practice performed by surgeons from antiquity until...
Evidence for trephination occurs from the Neolithic period onwards. Introduction Trephination (also known as trepanning or burr...
Since the arrival of technology, there is a revolution in every field and department. The ways of...
Shirt movements embodied the idea of a homogeneous community, based on a racial social or cultural identity....
After Adolf Hitler ordered the “blood purge” (Night of the Long Knives) of 1934, he replaced the...
When the 1918 influenza pandemic struck India, the death toll was highest among the poor. Introduction In...
The wealthy fled to the countryside, while the urban poor were forced to work on the front...
This imagery is identifiable as a scene from the Apocalypse, the end of the world as described...