The commercial and cultural energies of London necessarily shaped some of the characteristics of its reading public....
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Their first one hundred years. Curated by Hillary BradyFormer Digital Content SpecialistNational Air and Space MuseumSmithsonian Institution...
Across ancient civilizations, from the dialogues of Plato to the bureaucracies of Han China, the regulation of...
Across these three eras, the philosophy of consciousness unfolds not as a straight line, but as a...
From the clockwork charm of 19th-century automata to the cold circuitry of 20th-century surveillance, machines have not...
The cartography of power drawn in that era still shapes our world. Understanding its contours remains a...
If Reconstruction was the birth of a more expansive democracy, then the White League and Red Shirts...
The Bund’s defeat came not through civic enlightenment alone, but through federal prosecution and the geopolitical rupture...
The Tanegashima was more than a weapon. It was a historical fulcrum, a site where technology, identity,...
Puckle’s invention didn’t change warfare in his own era, but it contributed to an ongoing conversation about...
Its story is a testament to the contradiction at the heart of modern war: that even the...
It is likely that the Greek brothels were similar to those of Rome, described by numerous authors and...
Anyone who sold their body for the entertainment of others or exposed themselves to the public gaze,...
The study of late medieval sex trafficking makes clear that poverty and limited economic opportunities for women...
Understanding Bronze Age Gaza demands a critical eye toward modern narratives that impose fixed identities on ancient...
To study the demographic composition of the Holy Land in the medieval era is to reject the...
The modern history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resists finality. It is a story saturated with memory, loss,...
To write the history of the middle class is to write the history of modernity, not from...
The history of tax avoidance is a history of inequality made durable not by failure, but by...
Slot machines have occupied a unique space in American culture for more than a century. From modest...
To understand Roy Cohn is not to understand a villain. It is to understand a system that...
The presence of troops in American streets no longer shocks. That may be the most lasting erosion...
By preserving the past of a regime they overthrew, the French revolutionaries revealed a deeper commitment: to...
This termination reveals the fragility of institutions that once seemed stable. It exposes the ease with which...
The lie detector is not a machine of truth but of anxiety. It arises from a fear...
By crafting an unmediated relationship with the public, Roosevelt undermined the primacy of traditional journalism. He did...
The Spanish did not simply impose their will upon a static world. They disrupted a delicate ecological...
To understand this plague is not to isolate a pathogen but to examine a system – of...
It remains one of modernity’s unsolved puzzles, a sleep from which, perhaps, medical history itself has yet...
The trial of Socrates is a foundational episode in the history of dissent. It exposes the fragility...