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History
Exploring how China’s economic and diplomatic ties to the outside world shaped its modern history. Originally published...
How siblings torn between two sides of the Pacific forged identities in the aftermath of war. I...
These ancient manuscripts cover every aspect of human endeavor. Introduction Timbuktu, Mali, is the legendary city founded...
Glass beads, more than any other type of artifact, help us make sense of the last 600...
The period of the Reformation (roughly 1500-1700) witnessed an unprecedented wave of changes in religion, thought, society,...
The early years of printing in Western Europe was a time of astonishing productivity. Originally published by...
What did medieval Christians believe about women’s nature and social roles? How did they express these beliefs...
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Christianity has heard the term ‘Church Fathers’ but far less...
How were spices used by medieval Europeans, and why were spices so valuable in medieval Europe? Originally...
The Black Death struck in 1348, 1362, 1368, 1381, and continued even into the 18th century. 1348...
The history of surgery is a fascinating collection of knowledge from various civilizations dating back up to...
In Europe between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, fireworks displays were performances that told a story or...
Half a continent west of the 13 colonies, the Lakota Sioux were founding a nation of their...
Widely held beliefs in eugenic “science” and pervasive fear of foreigners led the US Congress to pass...
Exploring the subject of immigration in U.S. history with particular attention to the two and a half...
More than seventy British men and women were convicted – mostly in secret trials – of working...
A law designed to repair flaws in the fabric of American justice also created new ones. At...
When ABC brought William F. Buckley, Jr., and Gore Vidal together, the media became more interested in...
His ideas altered the education of children worldwide. “I believe that education is the fundamental method of...
An introduction and prologue for the first campaigns against Sicily and the relations between both Sicily and...
A scholar went on a Voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti and learned how an oppressive slave past has...
Well-worn routes resulted along which regular stopping points allowed pilgrims to sleep, eat, and be cared for...
The medieval Church developed and retained its power by encouraging the innate human fear of death and...
There are at least five reasons why the claim that the Bible is to be taken literally...
Interned Japanese-Americans produced newspapers to chronicle the stories and experiences of their community in a time of...
In 1911, the Dillingham Commission set a half-century precedent for screening out ‘undesirable’ newcomers. The Dillingham Commission...
Seeking out the histories and communities that existed before Route 66 and that survive still today. By...
The president and his Seneca friend Ely Parker wanted Native Americans to gain citizenship, but their efforts...
Archaeologists interested in what the skull trophies may tell about a tumultuous time of shifting political power....