Ancient texts hold the Gutians responsible for the fall of the Akkadian Empire and the desolation of...
History
A consensus now prevails that the origins of the Korean War date from at least World War...
In two generations, the Florentine trading and banking family became part of the world of papal bureaucracy....
The constraints set upon emotions and behaviour were severe indeed. Introduction: Three Episodes It is summer 1628....
Introduction “The Pope. And how many divisions has he?” Joseph Stalin at the 1943 Teheran conference, responding...
The development of long-distance trade during the Ubaid and Uruk periods led to the invention of writing....
Roman traffic ways connected to lines of communication into territories well beyond the empire. Transcontinental Connectivity Centuries...
Distinctive laces in the cityscape in geographic and economic terms. Introduction A walk through fifteenth-century London, from...
The United South of England Eleven, also known as the USEE, was a famous cricket team that...
Prostheses allowed users to avoid the stigmatization associated with disability and regain agency. Introduction Act 4 of...
Investigating the afterlives of both removed body parts and altered bodies in the Early Modern period. Introduction...
The first extant observation of what we now call phantom limb pain appeared in a 1564 text....
Was the perception of gender categories in prehistoric society different to present-day mainstream social norms? Introduction A...
Groups of men exerted their power to control the female body, even to the extent of granting...
Only in the past few years have the stories and experiences of trans people in Nazi Germany...
Pascal, a mathematician and a Catholic theologian, left a deep and lasting influence on the world still...
New and unpredictable digital technologies have been a constant for workers over the past few decades. Introduction...
They were devoted to ‘exploring the hidden reserves and dissociated states of consciousness’. Introduction In Egypt …...
Her occult romance novels brim with fantasies of telepathy, mesmerism, and radioactivity. This article, Radioactive Fictions: Marie...
The shell motif here makes a unique appearance in Rembrandt’s oeuvre. In 1972 a specimen of Rembrandt’s...
Native Americans lived on the land that became known as the Delta from around 1000 B.C. Due...
At stake was the electrical power it was providing to southern California and some of the nation’s...
The overlapping forces at play behind pioneering color photography in the early 20th-century Russian Empire. This article,...
The young radicals of Narodnya Volya were the heroes of Lenin’s youth. Introduction Early on the morning...
Lenin’s question – ‘who is leading whom?’ – would receive its definitive answer. The Civil War The...
The emerging evidence suggests clothing really had two origins: biological and cultural. Introduction Not long ago, I...
Men and women both used perfume, and the Sumerians seem to also have invented deodorant. Introduction Fashion...
Fringe was most often employed by the Romans as trim on religious garments. Introduction This article examines...
Rice’s identity remains uncertain, but his representation of mid-19th-century ideals of the Revolution is clear. Introduction “He...
The period’s discord was most obvious in its politics. The candidate, at first glance, seemed to have...