The founders were an essential political and cultural touchstone in the election of 1864. “Four score and...
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He claimed that he embodied the people in the same way that Louis XIV believed that he...
The impact of political and social expectations on women in the Western world. By Dr. Max Barnish,...
Analyzing classical religious influences on the work of Ehab Mamdouh. Abstract This paper focuses on the work...
Quaker worship services have always consisted of long periods of silent reflection. “The voices of the past...
Wellcome Library, Creative Commons A tattoo is defined as an indelible mark fixed upon the body by...
Over time, El Dorado extended its meaning beyond its kings to refer to a lost golden city...
Preserving foodstuffs by mechanical refrigeration became an industrial possibility only in the 1870s and 1880s. The refrigerator...
Guilds dominated local politics and influenced national and international affairs. Introduction Guilds existed throughout Europe during the...
Consumption of one or other form of intoxicating substances has been present throughout the history of the...
Rubbish excavated from brothels sheds light on sex workers’ lives in the 19th century. Despite the dangers,...
Actual divorce allowing remarriage could only be granted by parliament. The government’s current consultation (closing on 10 December)...
The Exchange of Arrows Between Death and Cupid, ca. 1665–1701, Pierre Landry (publisher). Engraving. The Getty Research...
Qajars first settled during the Mongol period in the vicinity of Armenia and were among the seven...
A discussion of Avicenna’s 11th-century points of view on rabies and compare them with modern medical knowledge....
Rebecca Rego Barry on Dr. David Hosack, the doctor who attended Alexander Hamilton to his duel (and...
The illustrations in medieval herbals are beautiful and mysterious. But if you know how to read them,...
Yma Sumac’s career embodied many of the contradictions that emerge when the international desire to consume exoticism...
Elizabeth Van Lew was a Richmond, Virginia abolitionist and philanthropist who built and operated an extensive spy...
Congress formed secret committees to oversee intelligence operations in the fight against the British. Introduction American Intelligence...
Americans cannot lose faith in democracy even as they face the consequences of the current circumstances. Like...
The observation of the sky was of considerable importance to the Maya, Aztecs and other prehisanic peoles...
Since the beginning of humankind, the fascination with the celestial vault has been regarded as an important...
Basville’s private correspondence reveals aspects of his character that deepen our understanding of the intendancy in the...
Exploring the dominant influence of religious notions in people’s worldview, providing meaning and powerfully influencing their cognitions,...
Howard Thurman, a mentor to MLK, first met Gandhi during a visit to India in 1936. He...
Transformed in the 1950s from a sharecropper shack that was built probably in the 1920s, Poor Monkey’s...
Through its representation of physical and psychological effects, Séjour’s story inaugurated the literary delineation of slavery’s submission-rebellion...
Early Israelite religion may once have shared the Canaanite belief in El and other gods, before the...
The Levant stretches 400 miles north to south from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert, and...