In 1994, Suharto’s government revoked Tempo’s publishing license. Ahmad Taufik and fellow reporters answered by forming AJI...
History
History connects people and societies across time, revealing how past choices continue to shape the present. Read accounts and interpretations drawn from cultures around the world.
After Xerxes’ defeat, the Ionian cities entered a transformed Aegean where Persian power endured even as Athens...
Marriage records from Candia show how seventeenth-century Cretan brides adopted mixed fabrics that resembled costlier textiles, using...
Antoniazzo Romano combined Renaissance naturalism with the gold grounds and frontal figures of medieval icons, revealing an...
From 1988 to 1994, British broadcasters replaced Gerry Adams’s voice with actors, revealing how a restriction that...
The Flavians inherited the monumental language of Julio-Claudian Rome but redirected it toward public use and dynastic...
The Vernacular Press Act targeted Indian-language newspapers. Amrita Bazar Patrika responded in English, preserving its dissent while...
Charles X’s attack on opposition newspapers in July 1830 turned an electoral crisis into open resistance. Popular...
Around 2600 BCE, people in Ur were already placing board games among grave goods. Ancient Egypt had...
As both press censor and news publisher, Roger L’Estrange turned royal authority into publishing advantage, while rival...
Small ceramic vessels tied to the ritual use of ayahuasca have been dated to roughly 2400 BC....
Harry Hoxsey never produced credible evidence that his herbal tonic cured cancer, but every prosecution helped turn...
Rio’s smallpox vaccine worked, but the state imposed it through institutions already associated with demolition, forced removal,...
In 1885, a vaccine-safety failure turned Montreal’s smallpox epidemic into a crisis of trust, giving rumor new...
People relied on plants to treat sickness long before modern pharmacies opened their doors. Early civilizations experimented...
During Granada’s Black Death, Ibn al-Khatib argued that plague followed people, garments, and possessions, forcing observation into...
Around 400 BCE, an anonymous Hippocratic writer rejected divine explanations for epilepsy, traced it to the brain,...
Rudolph Valentino’s sudden death in 1926 drew crowds as tabloid fabrications and newsreel cameras transformed private grief...
FDR’s 1942 green light letter kept professional baseball playing during World War II, preserving recreation and morale...
Lost has been proper acknowledgment of pioneering black civilian photographers of the mid-20th century. Robert McNeill, former...
Confucius died in 479 BCE without political success. Accounts of his disciples’ long mourning helped transform the...
Built by Jayavarman VII at the center of Angkor Thom, Bayon joined Buddhist kingship with enigmatic stone...
Carved into cliffs near Datong, the Yungang Grottoes show how Northern Wei patronage joined Buddhist devotion, imperial...
For three decades, major U.S. telegraph companies secretly supplied international message traffic to intelligence agencies, exposing the...
In 1844, Giuseppe Mazzini proved Britain was secretly opening his mail, exposing a hidden postal surveillance system...
Choosing the right armor for your medieval LARP character is more than just picking something that looks...
From Arthurian quests to enchanted forests and impossible loves, chivalric romances transformed inherited legends into stories that...
Ancient sailors navigated Cyprus through shifting winds and recognizable landscapes, revealing a Mediterranean whose routes changed with...
Gold-threaded vestments and church gifts allowed Matilda, Leonor, and Joanna Plantagenet to transform material splendor into memory,...
In 91 BCE, Emperor Wu’s hunt for hidden witchcraft turned searches, coercive interrogations, and palace suspicion into...