“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?” Introduction In the...
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Exploring the various legends surrounding the world’s most famous ship. By Dr. Richard HowellsProfessor of Cultural SociologyKing’s...
How to get away with smuggling in the Early Modern world? Be someone else! By Alexis Harasemovitch-TruaxPhD...
Analyzing the existence of Megalithic traits as a living tradition among the Kurumba tribe of Attappadi. Abstract...
By 1914, paleoanthropology recognized five species of human ancestors, two sub-species, and the tangible evidence of humanity’s...
Coming out was one of the core values of the gay liberation movement in the early 1970s,...
Lynes was a highly sought-after commercial and fashion photographer in the 1930s and 1940s. But he had...
There were many expeditions in search of a Northwest Passage during the 1700s. They include the voyages...
The silver industry influenced life in the colonial Americas and the Atlantic world on social, political, and...
Herod created architecture that implemented Roman technology, designs, and styles, while co-mingling them with his existing Hellenistic...
A philosopher, writer, orator and statesman, Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD) was Rome’s leading intellectual during...
The Arctic became a place beyond empirical grasp: the real/fantasy land of orality about which those living...
Acoustical science fundamentally transformed the ways that Victorians conceptualized the relations between aesthetics and the body. This...
This new attribution creates a benchmark for the late-medieval artist’s oeuvre, against which other works can now...
The sound quality in ancient times was likely much better than it is today. By Brigit Katz It...
Ancient amphorae / Southampton University, Creative Commons It has been proposed that different drinking norms developed in northern...
London was already a major beer producer in the sixteenth century. London was already a major beer...
Alcohol played a central role in early modern life, occupying much of the time of both law...
Conservator William Shelley and preparator Rita Gomez of the Getty Museum oversee the sculpture’s safe arrival in...
Is there hope humanity will once again push beyond Earth? By Ryan P. Smith Few moments in...
When you think of emblematic Soviet buildings, you don’t usually think of rabbits, but there they are....
In the 1880s and 90s, the age-old literary figure of the spy underwent a number of transformations...
The Panama Canal was a tremendous achievement by the U.S. and a display of their power and...
Walls began to rise around cities throughout Mesopotamia shortly after urbanization began. Introduction The English word ‘wall’...
“Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and...
Early modern women were subjected to multiple realms of authority in both the private and public spheres....
The elite few benefited at the cost of the many until his overthrow and exile. Introduction José...
Until the late ninteenth century, the Armenians were referred to as millet-i sadika (loyal nation) by the...
Calling the French liars, atheists, and libertines, undoubtedly evoked a general sense of immorality and disrepute. In...
America had completed a series of successful launches into space and achieved many firsts well before Sputnik....