Quezon was instrumental in lobbying the U.S. Government to grant the islands a greater level of autonomy....
History
An artist drew the rebels as they stood trial, leaving behind an invaluable record. By Dr. Kate...
By The British Museum Byzantine Egypt Egypt’s dry climate has preserved a range and abundance of architecture,...
Egyptians called it the Black Land because of the annually-renewed black soil that arrived with the flood....
It is hardly a coincidence that it was only with the emergence of the first spatial foci...
The conviction that the United States was founded on Christianity collapses under scrutiny of the historical record....
No matter where people settled in Greece, they were rarely more than 50 miles from the sea....
Coubertin’s desire to resurrect the Olympic Games was prompted by his concerns about international challenges and changes....
The sixties opened with great promise and hope as Americans elected the young John Kennedy. In 1960...
How the “Greatest Show on Earth” enthralled small-town crowds and inspired shopping malls. When Barnum and Bailey’s...
She is usually interpreted as Freyja and the act is generally considered to initiate a battle between...
The history of autism is not the story of a timeless condition waiting to be discovered, but...
Demonic possession had physical and mental signs, but it was not a physical or biological fact. Rather,...
From the first shocking outbreaks in 1976 to the massive epidemic that swept through West Africa four...
In Rome, words were never merely words. They were instruments of power, sharpened in the crucible of...
The medieval experience warns of continuity. The same mechanisms (demonization, dehumanization, apocalyptic urgency) reappear in modern contexts...
The Revolution quickly devolved into violent paranoia, and 20-40,000 people were killed in the Reign of Terror....
The archive is full of early alarms. The ethical question is whether we treat them only as...
Democracies die when fear legitimizes indefinite exception, when law is used to undo law, and when enough...
The Nazi assault on the press, publishing, and scholarship was more than censorship. It was an attempt...
Exploring medieval English mysticism in the post-Reformation period. One of the central tensions from which mystic writing...
A medieval monastery was an enclosed and sometimes remote community of monks or nuns. Introduction Abbeys were...
America restricted women’s competition in public spheres of sports and politics by retaining inconsistent ideals. Introduction Nineteenth...
Numerous women earned their living playing baseball from the 1890s until the early 1930s. While baseball is...
Over one hundred official attempts have been made to try to identify the site of Alexander’s tomb....
Carter knew he had almost certainly discovered a king’s tomb, but he could not determine which king....
Pseudoscience and conspiracy theories are not fringe anomalies but recurring features of human history, shadows that accompany...
Just as modern debates pit UFO enthusiasts against skeptics who prefer weather balloons or satellites, the medieval...
From Martian Canals to Exoplanet Biosignatures: The Historic Scientific Search for Life beyond Earth 
From Martian Canals to Exoplanet Biosignatures: The Historic Scientific Search for Life beyond Earth
The arc from Lowell’s imagined Martian engineers to Webb’s atmospheric spectroscopy demonstrates not only the persistence of...
The history of the Battle of Waterloo, as well as the biographies of the two powerful adversaries...