Qajars first settled during the Mongol period in the vicinity of Armenia and were among the seven...
History
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...
In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Philipp Moritz — from the peace of Lake Biel...
The Socialist League was one of several early socialist groups which arose in Great Britain during the...
In an age of electronic communication it is easy to forget the vital role that letter-writing played...
Waterhouse’s images of Circe, sirens and sorceresses raise a number of questions. By Michelle Bonollo Mr Waterhouse...
Arthur Balfour was a complex character, hard to read. His reasons for backing Zionism may have been...
Zionism began to take shape in 1881 when Russian revolutionaries assassinated Tsar Alexander II. The land called...
Ideas about racial and cultural identity, even among indigenous people, have changed significantly over time. Joseph Louis...
In the religious politics of the Second Temple period, the Aaronide priestly dynasties were the Mushite priesthood....
The temple of Hathor and Nefertari, also known as the Small Temple, dedicated to the goddess Hathor and...
Although brolly is British, bumbershoot is surprisingly American. Me: Hi English person: You mean you don’t have SNELLYDORF HUFFLEDAMS?...
The evolution of Italian citizenship from political unification to the end of the Second World War. By...
The rise of the Border South in the nineteenth century as a section was accompanied by conflict...
Exploring the circumstances of the death of Reverend William Richardson, an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister in the Waxhaw...