The artist uses her craft to represent and raise awareness of Asian-American history and identity. Jasmine Cho...
History
They were all about family and work. “And so you know the difficulty in becoming an American....
The Whitney hall was once one of the crown jewels of the museum, alongside the halls of...
Tea drinking in Japan became nothing less than an art form. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The Japanese...
Why a 19-year-old Frenchman traded Versailles for Valley Forge. The 19-year-old Marquis de Lafayette had met only...
There is little evidence remaining from the pre-Roman worship, as they left little footprints of their spiritual...
The war over-extended the capabilities of the Soviet empire, as other military engagements have helped to bring...
These burial places formed the centers of small-scale chiefdoms and shared a set of sculptural motifs and...
Deep in the Colorado Plateau, there are paintings from an ancient people. Of the thousands of Native...
A scribe would be remembered, not only by family and friends, but by a much larger audience...
Harper’s songs were lyrics composed in ancient Egypt to be sung at funeral feasts and inscribed on...
Many were conflicted between their desire to believe and their want of rigorous intellectual explanation, and material...
We’re still playing the same game, 2500 years later. There were apparently many anti-superstitious atheists in ancient...
The titles featured here (by American authors) have had a profound effect on American life. Introduction Ask...
Beginning with a small psalm book that filled a basic need in the devotional lives of colonists,...
A financial crash in 1890 convinced him that money was behind the world’s economic problems. By Greg...
Colonial opulence had to be displayed behind closed doors. At first glance, the portrait appears to be...
How did the Columbian Exchange shape food culture in the modern world? Originally published by Newberry Digital...
The woman Thoreau once called the “youngest person in Concord”. Henry David Thoreau isn’t usually known for flattering comments...
The Res Gestae was a unique public relations move for the first emperor of the Roman Empire,...
Though his work was little read in the Roman world, it has influenced great thinkers such as...
Ever wondered about the origin of universities? If so, this article is going to be of interest...
Assisted by Native Americans, they moved – and fought. Introduction In 1861, as Confederate armies prepared to...
Both during slavery and after, the power structures of American society confined many black women to the...
Feudalism (hoken seido) began to be widespread in Japan from the beginning of the Kamakura Period (1185-1333...
In what ways do we associate movement—the ability to go anywhere and be anyone—with freedom? How do...
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why...
More than 200 years ago, a group of Philadelphian reformers had a utopian vision of how prisons...
Despite the restrictions women faced, her art collections demonstrate important renaissance themes. Introduction In European history classes,...
She caused a furor when she coined “the banality of evil” to describe mindless acts of Nazi...