Machiavelli’s earlier book, Discourses on Livy, displayed strong support for free speech, a republican form of government, and compromise....
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Comparing the different approaches towards artistic activity of Plato and Aristotle. By David OrozcoProfessor of PhilosophyPontificia Universidad...
Fictional characters, unlike laudanum-addicted impostors, never really die. A handsome youth with shoulder-length golden hair sits in...
In ‘Peasant and Nestrobber’, Bruegel was engaged with the troubles of his time. Abstract Pieter Bruegel the...
This 15th-century mystic turned her hand to brewing the bubbly, and she wasn’t very successful. By Karl...
By looking at drug addiction from an evolutionary perspective, we may understand its underlying significance and evaluate...
Extensive trade networks connected the Maya to the rest of Mesoamerica, producing the dynamic landscapes and bustling...
Looking at some of the direct results of the Christian belief in God-sanctioned dominion. By Paul KivelEducator...
By the late nineteenth century, no official copy could be found of the document that introduced Haiti...
Sex worker card collection, Thomas SG Farnetti / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons In the 1980s a change...
In Victorian times, syphilis was believed to arise spontaneously in a prostitute’s body, a result of ‘immorality’....
The historic University of Paris first appeared in the second half of the twelfth century. Introduction The...
Monasteries were important centers of learning which educated the young and produced new technologies for agricultural and...
In a time of great national crisis, a president took the bold step of declaring freedom for...
A bill of lading is a document issued by a carrier to a shipper acknowledging receipt of...
In 1896, a woman university student living in Zurich published in pamphlet form an extraordinary tirade against...
As important as sexuality is to being human, it is often viewed as a taboo topic for...
This tactic could set a political foe aside from the whole community and turn the audience against...
Epaminondas transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a preeminent...
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, from A Blighted Life, 1880 / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons The life of Rosina...
The region of Palestine is among the earliest sites of human habitation in the world. Introduction Palestine...
Every third European is a speaker of a Slavic language. By area, nearly half of Europe speaks...
By one interpretation of the historiography criterion, Southeastern Europe enters protohistory only with Homer. At any rate,...
A new scene was taking root, composed of bands that combined punk’s politics and attitude with the...
Besides its striking visual characteristics, we might also consider steampunk a novel and popular way of “doing”...
The concept of absolutism – the divine right to rule – dominated the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
In the 19th century, the Grange was an agricultural brotherhood that sought to foster mutual self-reliance and...
A system inherited from colonial Spain kept Americans in servitude even after the Civil War. Imagine a...
The earliest substantiated evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree is from the...
The Maya Civilisation can be traced as far back as 2000 BCE. Introduction Geology is not just...