Over 8 million Truman Library visitors have encountered the exhibit since it was completed in 1961. The...
History
Eadweard Muybridge traveled to Panama and Guatemala in 1875, where he engaged in some questionable practices. Introduction...
Examining evidence from epigraphy, iconography, and topography. Introduction The subject of Palmyrenes’1 integration as residents of Rome...
To whom did the princes’ and nobles’ ‘own entrusted lands’ truly belong? Abstract This article provides an...
From the ingestion of relic dust and blood-tinged water to the practices of purging and venesection. Medieval...
A virologist reflects on the achievements of this visionary scientist. Introduction Some of the greatest scientific discoveries...
Polio vaccines have been a massive public health victory in the U.S. Introduction “Got Polio? Me neither....
Were the circumstances of London life around 1500 more favourable to domestic stability and wellbeing? Introduction In...
Robust, practical, pretty and pure, she was a symbol of wholesomeness and romantic pastoral innocence. The milkmaid...
The “hydra-headed monster” of smut is where he made his first big kill. From an early age,...
The question was that of the definition of the “nation”, to which the government was accountable. Introduction...
Throughout most of the war, the bulk of the German gold reserves was held at the Reichsbank...
Soviet citizens never saw most of the Western cultural treasures brought home. Introduction World War II resulted...
Eumenes made Pergamon one of the grandest cities of Asia Minor and a cultural and intellectual center....
Books leave their traces in our minds, but often we leave traces of ourselves in books, too....
It takes a lot of steps – and help from other people – to make a physical...
How the Epic of Gilgamesh is interpreted by online communities which exist within the manosphere network. Abstract...
Hatshepsut is one of the most powerful female rulers of the ancient world, if not the most...
A woman sought to make the then-unprecedented move of ascending to the English throne. Introduction In three...
Its morbid sensory alertness preserved some kind of faith with the empiricist principles that shadowed its history....
European mariners were already familiar with shipworms like T. navalis before 1730. In the fall of 1730 following a...
The Bache album has resulted in many more being identified, cataloged, and made public. It’s 1804 and...
Modern scholars consider writing as one of the characteristic features of civilization, while the ancients regarded it...
In 1831, Michael Faraday discovered the basic principles of electricity generation. Introduction Affordable, reliable electricity is fundamental...
As the 20th century dawned, people basked in the marvelous and unearthly glow of the new electric...
From hydroelectric dams to pylons, the 20th-century architecture of electricity inspired a new kind of awe. Printed...
Students entered school before the age of ten and graduated around twelve years later having mastered cuneiform....
Schools were privately operated by teachers and therefore dependent on tuition fees. Introduction Roman education had its first...
Assessing a group of early Carolingian grammar miscellanies using methods of digital network analysis. Early medieval masters...
Old Seattle’s sonorous and evocative phrases still reverberate today. Did Millard Fillmore install the first bathtub in...