Ancient rituals and philosophical dialogues prefigure modern therapies, while technologies from trephines to smartphones mediate the therapeutic...
History
Ancient education was never monolithic. It reflected and reproduced the inequalities of its time, yet it also...
The history of student foreign exchange and educational migration is inseparable from the history of power, empire,...
Collectively, these tools chart the shifting priorities of education: from moral instruction to standardization, from vocational preparation...
Genocide by definition. By Dr. Rosalyn R. LaPierProfessor of HistoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Introduction I am...
The lesson of antiquity is that technological ingenuity was never absent. What was absent were economic structures...
Medieval record-keeping technology encompassed more than quills and parchment. It represented a cultural shift toward inscription as...
Neural networks matured into deep learning, Bayesian reasoning undergirds modern probabilistic AI, and reinforcement learning powers today’s...
Powell continued to practice medicine as a civilian. More than 180,000 African Americans—some free born, some escaped...
The craze for castrati in England started relatively late. Introduction For most of the people in this...
The ancient study of the brain was never purely scientific nor purely mystical. It arose from the...
By the close of the nineteenth century, prosthetics had moved from artisanal oddities to standardized commodities. They...
People were making a binding gesture not just with the Gospels, but also with the civic law....
Late medieval people used osculation in several rituals adapted from the pre-Christian past. Introduction In a twelfth-century...
To remember the ancients is to remember that law does not simply protect; it can dominate, sanctify...
A nation born in rebellion against centralized authority has repeatedly turned to its presidents to enforce order...
To describe this expansion is not to celebrate or condemn, but to recognize the profound transformation of...
Globally, cats have accompanied humans since ancient times, beginning in Western Asia almost 10,000 years ago. They were...
Vodou’s origins are diverse, and it developed initially among the enslaved population. Introduction Who is this man...
Interpretations that suggest Ragnarøk motifs in Viking age iconography. Introduction Despite its character of being a well-known...
Our earliest teachings on Christianity are from the letters of a Pharisee. By Dr. Rebecca DenovaEmeritus Professor...
Discussing the distinctive nature of Hinduism and its sacred texts, drawing on the Vedas and epic compositions....
Religion was the first passport. Without the sacred credential, there was no true political inclusion. Migrants did...
The medieval workplace cannot be understood apart from its religious context. To work in medieval Europe was...
Pasteurization’s success is so complete that it often becomes invisible, a background technology of safety like chlorination...
Fletcherism’s legacy is not merely that of a peculiar dietary eccentricity but of a revealing moment in...
History’s record suggests that vigilance must not be the task of regulators alone, but of societies willing...
Broken mirrors can be associated with bad luck, but for the ancient Maya, a cracked mirror was...
The whole hypothesis of gravity abolition is based on a mysterious papyru that was discovered in the...
Babylonian astronomy cannot be fully understood if confined to the history of science. It was, fundamentally, a...