Indigenous people in Ecuador’s Amazonian region (the Oriente) lived outside of modern markets and political systems until...
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Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific...
Mortsafes at Kinnernie graveyard, Aberdeenshire / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons When an expansion in the study of anatomy...
The vanishing of John Knight and his three companions. Introduction On June 19, 1606, John Knight ran...
How contemporary southeastern Native writers work to repossess homelands that they rearticulate not as “the South” but...
The relationship between the Byzantine Empire and ancient Armenia was a constant and varied one with an...
The social context of cloth from the Neolithic to Bronze Age as seen in the Hallstatt prehistoric...
Exploring the history of post-slavery labor, the harsh conditions of labor camps, and efforts to end the...
Jefferson’s reasoning centered on generational sovereignty and timeliness. It is often acknowledged that Jefferson did much in...
An interview with Dr. Joanne B. Freeman, professor of history and American studies at Yale University, about...
What if, in November, instead of disappearing behind a curtain to exercise your right to vote, you...
A considerable number of Roman roads remained in daily use as core trunk roads for centuries after...
New research has rubbished perceptions of Roman Britain as a region inhabited solely by white Europeans. Our...
The issue of inter-state relations illustrates the political relevance of changing concepts of borders in early modern...
As Islamic activists assumed power across the Arab and Muslim world, they drifted toward autocracy and repression....
Hosay procession in St. James / Photo by Nicholas Laughlin, Creative Commons Hosay, a religious ritual performed by...
Analyzing an eighteenth-century automaton from South Asia in the image of a tiger mauling a British soldier....
Rugendas up the challenging mission of drawing and conveying the New World to Europe. A significant weakness...
For indigenous peoples, winter solstice has been a time to honor their ancient sun deity. Their rituals...
Hal Lindsey and C. C. Carlson’s The Late Great Planet Earth introduced millions of readers worldwide to end-times prophecy....
‘Thought-Forms, a strange, beguiling, frequently pretentious, utterly original book first published in 1901, emerged from a ferment...
The Boston Tea Party, a foundational moment of political rebellion, was a protest against tea, and tea...
Promotion for safe sex by the Connecticut Department of Health Services / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Condoms...
In the great reformer’s eyes, if you didn’t love a rousing tune you deserved only “the music...
During the seismic religious changes of the 16th and 17th centuries, atrocities were committed and martyrs were...
Keith C. Heidorn takes a look at the life and work of Wilson Bentley, a self-educated farmer...
Its dizzy heights may have passed, but the fad for adult coloring books is far from over....
Animals have always been central to human culture, as cave paintings around the world attest. In more...
Books had the practical aim of helping children to learn to read, count, and understand the world...
Examining the role of animals in Thai manuscript art. Illustrations of real and mythical animals play an...