Animals are history-shaping actors in many fields of historical research. Introduction Animals have become an important topic...
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War animals have been with us for a very long time. There’s a good chance you’ve come...
Buddhist Man Meditating / Photo by Jakub Michankow, Wikimedia Commons ‘Mindfulness’ has become a household word, standing for inner...
Examining the death, and the life, of Florence Nightingale, the great nursing heroine of the Crimean War....
The Seattle General Strike had its origins in the city’s many shipyards. It shut down a major...
After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, central authority fell to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the Shogunate began....
Franklin advanced a scientific – not supernatural – understanding of astronomical events such as eclipses. His satirical...
You’ve come a long way, baby. moggafogga, CC BY-NC-ND The how and the when of dog domestication are fairly...
So, you found my ancestors? Are you sure this time? epsos There has been much debate about how cats...
Almost 160 years after Charles Darwin publicized his groundbreaking theory on the development of life, Americans are...
Kahina’s life is only known through later Arab historians writing on the Muslim conquest of Africa. Introduction...
Death rituals help us to cope with loss and perhaps even feelings of guilt associated with disposing...
The founders were an essential political and cultural touchstone in the election of 1864. “Four score and...
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 filled many niches in medieval economy and society. Typical taxonomies divide urban occupational guilds into two...
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...