This is actually the first book devoted to the subject of werewolves in the ancient world. By...
History
Archaeological material can feed into discussions of sacrifice and pre-Christian myth and religion. Introduction Most often, and...
The iconic image of a witch on a broomstick has apocryphal origins. By Dr. Michael D. BaileyProfessor...
“Damnation seize my soul.” By Eli WizevichHistory CorrespondentSmithsonian Magazine Something unthinkable happened during the summer of 1718....
Wallpaper has done more than decorate, it has been a history, technology, and culture, reflection. Wallpaper comes...
The Waldensian story remains a mirror for every age in which conviction eclipses truth. When belief becomes...
The medieval economy, often portrayed as rigid and hierarchical, in fact operated through a mosaic of temporary,...
The middle class saw itself as both the moral guardian and the practical engine of progress, defining...
Darshan is also about the multilayered ways in which we see the world around us. Background If...
Warrior-monks crusaded for Christianity, and adding to the ongoing mystery surrounding the military order is their enigmatic...
The end of witch hunts did not bring an end to the human impulses that sustained them....
By transferring moral and political legitimacy from revelation to reason, the Enlightenment recast the relationship between the...
The American Republic emerged from violence not as an accident but as its creative condition. The Revolution...
The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 did not simply close a chapter in European history;...
Whenever religion merges with nationalism, Hypatia’s shadow reappears. Her story warns that the moment belief wields the...
In the long arc of intellectual history, the autonomy of the medieval university emerges as the seed...
The Münster Rebellion stands as one of the most haunting episodes of the Reformation, not simply for...
The story of the Agapemonites is not merely a curiosity of Victorian eccentricity but a revealing chapter...
From Liberty to Empire: The French Revolution’s Collapse from Radical Idealism to Authoritarian Rule 
From Liberty to Empire: The French Revolution’s Collapse from Radical Idealism to Authoritarian Rule
To study the French Revolution, then, is to confront the fragility of all revolutions. Every movement for...
Each collapse (whether agrarian, fascist, postcolonial, or digital) produces not only political debris but human remains of...
By the time British troops felled the Liberty Tree in 1775, the movement it had nourished had...
Freedom, in the American sense, was never bestowed from above. The hands that build its cities, till...
Augustus’ rule stands as one of history’s greatest paradoxes: a revolution executed in the language of restoration....
From Washington’s modest oath to the twenty-first-century “imperial presidency,” the trajectory of American executive power traces the...
To worship the biblical God as “author of life” is to venerate a being who repeatedly chose...
Many variations of a name are possible. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Pubs remain a prominent feature of...
It invoked both the supreme military and political power of the Roman Empire. By Sophie Taylor Introduction...
Challenging authority with laughter. By Lorraine BoissoneaultWriter, Producer, and Journalist Anti-Roman sentiment may have run rampant through...
By the time John Marshall left the bench in 1835, the nation he had helped to shape...
The Velvet Revolution endures as one of modern history’s clearest demonstrations that legitimacy, not violence, anchors political...