The foundational Jewish texts assert that a fetus does not attain the status of personhood until birth....
History
Pregnancy and birth have been represented by human beings since pre-historic times in every form of human...
Exploring the rise of the phenomenon in the U.S. This article, Eastern Sports and Western Bodies: The...
How did Twain’s Huckleberry Finn engage and challenge popular ideas about slavery and race in nineteenth-century America?...
How did literature help make sense of the war and the profound changes it brought to the...
What is the context for Shakespeare’s Roman plays? Why did classical Rome capture the interest of people...
Trees were utilized in building construction and for ceremonial ornaments and daily implements. Introduction The Jomon period...
Migrants found both opportunity and hardship in modernizing California. Introduction In the half-century between the Civil War...
Improved agricultural output and a political climate dedicated to ensuring cheap food led to a dramatic increase...
Islamic medicine was built on tradition, chiefly the theoretical and practical knowledge developed in Greece and Rome....
Ancient Sparta could be considered the most fully-realized form of gerontocracy that any state has ever implemented....
How to turn language, the core operating system of the humanities, into numbers. Stephen Mitchell suffered from...
Success did not come easy to Einstein. It took six minutes, fifty-one seconds for Albert Einstein to...
How did writers and audiences in late Victorian England and America explore the idea of a hidden...
Examining Georgian England’s new craze for sea-bathing. The Wellcome Library has a first edition of a book...
Corroborating Prudence’s wartime adventures is difficult. Introduction Prudence Patterson was born in 1743 (either in Wales or...
What forms has dissent taken in U.S. history? What is the role of dissent in a representative...
Introduction The coronavirus pandemic has created what feels like an unprecedented situation in the District: Schools are...
Incidents of polio increased to epidemic proportions after 1900. What was going on? Introduction Poliomyelitis (polio) is...
Mary McLeod Bethune founded a college, defied the Klan, advised presidents, and was a fierce warrior for...
In their last days, the suffragist pioneers looked back and left us their story in letters. “It...
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Examining how cats have been historically represented since the ancient world. Introduction Furry friends can be comforting...
Analysis of a bronze cat reveals clues about its ancient past. By Jeffrey Maish, Judith Barr, and...
The Transcontinental Railroad facilitated the colonization of western territories by encouraging new settlements on Indigenous lands. The...
She was an outspoken critic of harsh treatment of the Paiute in the American West. For the...
The women chose psychological sabotage and developed unique strategies. Introduction Nearly all the 1.3 million people sent...
A medieval person would have looked upon the owl and the birds and seen a Christian parable....
Plebeians sought to enforce reform on Patricians – and it worked. First, what happened in politics at...
The plague, named the Black Death by later historians, had a devastating effect on the European population...
With no accurate knowledge about the disease and the way it was spread, what could be done...