On the cancelling of Charles Lindbergh. There is no modern equivalent to the level of fame Charles Lindbergh...
History
History connects people and societies across time, revealing how past choices continue to shape the present. Read accounts and interpretations drawn from cultures around the world.
The United States was a relative latecomer to the world of mass propaganda and public diplomacy. By...
How Cold War officialdom made the world safe for propaganda. Introduction SINCE THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, Americans have...
In creating an icon, Washington Roebling and his kin realized dreams that Europe never could fulfill. By...
City founders expected an outpost of New England. What they created was a paragon of immigrant civic...
A substantial amount of the artifacts in the Thracian archaeological record comes from diverse cultural and stylistic...
The similarities between the effigies of James Meredith and the thousands of black bodies hanged and burned...
There were moments in our history where both African-American freedom and Mexico’s independence were addressed in a...
Baalbek is a town in the northern Bekaa valley, the site of the largest sanctuary in the...
The Lacedaemonians abandoned the grand strategy they had articulated early on. Introduction In ancient Lacedaemon, as in...
Emile Herman Grubbe discovered the x-rays could cure, but he was right for the wrong reasons. Radiation...
For over 500 years, scientific and artistic collaborations have enhanced and promoted medical knowledge. Introduction From the early...
By Steven Fife During his reign as dictator from 49-44 BC, Julius Caesar had a number of notable impacts...
How did the Ottomans shape the political and religious history of early modern Europe? Originally published by...
The splintering of the medieval church ushered in a volatile new era of increased anxiety, tension, and...
Although magic and witchcraft had existed since antiquity, early modern Europe underwent a growth in anxiety about...
The devil, once a part of the sacred truth, could now be seen as a fragment of...
Demons and artists, it seems, pull from the same bag of tricks. They take ordinary matter and...
An analysis forces us to ask what we mean by political agency. By Laura Spinney Eleanor of...
The conquered areas of Elam, Media, Lydia, Babylonia, Egypt, and several eastern Iranian tribes were more or...
How does Upton Sinclair’s representation of this community in The Jungle compare to the accounts of sociologists...
If you were lucky enough to exist in the wealthiest sets of society… The “Gilded Age,” a...
Let’s adventure back to Colonial America—a time of exploration, revolution, taverns and….fast food? Yes, that’s right, fast...
The latitude line passing between the North and the South has separated generations of families. The Korean...
The ancients constructed the pagodas complying with design principles based on the arithmetic and geometric proportional systems....
Because of its geography and location, Cilicia was among the most important regions of the classical world....
The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to...
Two hundred years after New England’s first great hurricane, we ask very different questions about the nature...
About 19,000 years ago in southwestern France at a site called Saint-Germain-La-Rivière, an adult woman dies and...
Poet-politician Joel Barlow personified an ideology borne of religious antipathy and economic rivalry. No sooner had the...