The history of autism is not the story of a timeless condition waiting to be discovered, but...
History
Demonic possession had physical and mental signs, but it was not a physical or biological fact. Rather,...
From the first shocking outbreaks in 1976 to the massive epidemic that swept through West Africa four...
In Rome, words were never merely words. They were instruments of power, sharpened in the crucible of...
The medieval experience warns of continuity. The same mechanisms (demonization, dehumanization, apocalyptic urgency) reappear in modern contexts...
The Revolution quickly devolved into violent paranoia, and 20-40,000 people were killed in the Reign of Terror....
The archive is full of early alarms. The ethical question is whether we treat them only as...
Democracies die when fear legitimizes indefinite exception, when law is used to undo law, and when enough...
The Nazi assault on the press, publishing, and scholarship was more than censorship. It was an attempt...
Exploring medieval English mysticism in the post-Reformation period. One of the central tensions from which mystic writing...
A medieval monastery was an enclosed and sometimes remote community of monks or nuns. Introduction Abbeys were...
America restricted women’s competition in public spheres of sports and politics by retaining inconsistent ideals. Introduction Nineteenth...
Numerous women earned their living playing baseball from the 1890s until the early 1930s. While baseball is...
Over one hundred official attempts have been made to try to identify the site of Alexander’s tomb....
Carter knew he had almost certainly discovered a king’s tomb, but he could not determine which king....
Pseudoscience and conspiracy theories are not fringe anomalies but recurring features of human history, shadows that accompany...
Just as modern debates pit UFO enthusiasts against skeptics who prefer weather balloons or satellites, the medieval...
From Martian Canals to Exoplanet Biosignatures: The Historic Scientific Search for Life beyond Earth 
From Martian Canals to Exoplanet Biosignatures: The Historic Scientific Search for Life beyond Earth
The arc from Lowell’s imagined Martian engineers to Webb’s atmospheric spectroscopy demonstrates not only the persistence of...
The history of the Battle of Waterloo, as well as the biographies of the two powerful adversaries...
They had a keen interest in commemorating the Persian wars. By K.W. ArafatAuthor and Historian To the...
The war chariot dominated the battlefield, altering the strategies of kings and the fates of empires. Yet...
Routiers were indispensable to rulers yet loathed by the people; harbingers of military modernization but reminders of...
George Washington’s genius did not rest in tactical brilliance alone. His achievement was to hold together an...
America’s first female soldiers belonged to a compact branch of the army known as the Signal Corps....
So-called childless women like Davis have shown that they have a stake in children’s welfare, women’s welfare...
Civilizations rose to remarkable heights of density and urbanization, yet they did so within limits that could...
Birth rates in the medieval world illuminate the precarious balance of life before modern medicine. Fertility was...
While political discourse often collapses “religion” into opposition, the historical record shows a deep and continuous current...
Few Native Americans are celebrating the centennial of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. American citizenship was...
Dogs appeared several times during testimonies. By Dr. Bridget MarshallProfessor of EnglishUMass Lowell Introduction I teach a course...