The history of the House of Saud reveals a monarchy sustained by a combination of religious alliance,...
History
The funeral speech offers the audience a model to be imitated and thus contributes to the timeless...
They “freed” themselves at death – their wills presenting a rare opportunity to make personal legal decisions...
What had once been largely a domestic, community-managed process became a commercial enterprise characterized by standardized services,...
Compiled in the seventh century BCE for the Library of Ashurbanipal, the NME transformed a diverse body...
The investigation of coitus interruptus in the Middle Ages forces historians to navigate a terrain defined as...
From the plague riots of late medieval Europe to the COVID-19 demonstrations of the twenty-first century, the...
Gaining a deeper understanding of the goals and meanings of the idealized art of the Classical Greek...
Whether spoken before the gods of Rome, a medieval lord, a constitutional text, or a dictator, the...
The history of presidential emergency powers in the United States reveals a persistent pattern: crises serve as...
Quezon was instrumental in lobbying the U.S. Government to grant the islands a greater level of autonomy....
An artist drew the rebels as they stood trial, leaving behind an invaluable record. By Dr. Kate...
By The British Museum Byzantine Egypt Egypt’s dry climate has preserved a range and abundance of architecture,...
Egyptians called it the Black Land because of the annually-renewed black soil that arrived with the flood....
It is hardly a coincidence that it was only with the emergence of the first spatial foci...
The conviction that the United States was founded on Christianity collapses under scrutiny of the historical record....
No matter where people settled in Greece, they were rarely more than 50 miles from the sea....
Coubertin’s desire to resurrect the Olympic Games was prompted by his concerns about international challenges and changes....
The sixties opened with great promise and hope as Americans elected the young John Kennedy. In 1960...
How the “Greatest Show on Earth” enthralled small-town crowds and inspired shopping malls. When Barnum and Bailey’s...
She is usually interpreted as Freyja and the act is generally considered to initiate a battle between...
The history of autism is not the story of a timeless condition waiting to be discovered, but...
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...