Pascal, a mathematician and a Catholic theologian, left a deep and lasting influence on the world still...
History
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...
Over 8 million Truman Library visitors have encountered the exhibit since it was completed in 1961. The...
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....