Although magic and witchcraft had existed since antiquity, early modern Europe underwent a growth in anxiety about...
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The devil, once a part of the sacred truth, could now be seen as a fragment of...
Demons and artists, it seems, pull from the same bag of tricks. They take ordinary matter and...
An analysis forces us to ask what we mean by political agency. By Laura Spinney Eleanor of...
The conquered areas of Elam, Media, Lydia, Babylonia, Egypt, and several eastern Iranian tribes were more or...
How does Upton Sinclair’s representation of this community in The Jungle compare to the accounts of sociologists...
If you were lucky enough to exist in the wealthiest sets of society… The “Gilded Age,” a...
Let’s adventure back to Colonial America—a time of exploration, revolution, taverns and….fast food? Yes, that’s right, fast...
The latitude line passing between the North and the South has separated generations of families. The Korean...
The ancients constructed the pagodas complying with design principles based on the arithmetic and geometric proportional systems....
Because of its geography and location, Cilicia was among the most important regions of the classical world....
The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to...
Two hundred years after New England’s first great hurricane, we ask very different questions about the nature...
About 19,000 years ago in southwestern France at a site called Saint-Germain-La-Rivière, an adult woman dies and...
Poet-politician Joel Barlow personified an ideology borne of religious antipathy and economic rivalry. No sooner had the...
What it was like at the main gateway to the U.S. in the early 20th century. Immigrants...
Discussing the role of animals in transport, logistics, cavalry and communications in the First World War. Introduction...
With major dailies giving a megaphone to the police, the coverage of Stonewall is a reminder of...
The Donation of Constantine was most likely written, and almost certainly used, to coerce Pepin the Short...
To understand the struggle for Mexican independence, it’s necessary to explore both the wider, international context and...
Municipal swimming pools flourished in the 20th century. But too often, their success was based on the...
Arguments made by eighteenth-century writers about the slave trade and contributions to those debates by freed slave...
Inscriptions ranging from the first Persian king, Cyrus, through Artaxerxes reveal elements in common in both Babylonian...
The Assyrian king was the main promoter of big feasts and special events, during which he played...
How the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment is being remembered and how, for decades, it was not....
James Graham, founder of the Temple of Health, benefitted from his undeniable flair for showmanship and his...
The fortifications were the largest and strongest ever built in either the ancient or medieval worlds. By...
The Varangians were probably as shocking a sight to Byzantine enemies as tanks would have been to...
Agriculture was the foundation of the Ancient Greek economy. Nearly 80% of the population was involved in this activity.[1] Agricultural...
Photographs documenting pivotal events in the struggle for civil rights in the United States. Overview This exhibition...