In our own time, where control of information remains a central axis of power, the lessons of...
History
The past is not a possession. It cannot be legislated into stability. It is always under negotiation....
This global policing of the past should concern anyone who believes in democratic ideals. For history is...
The myth of civic virtue as the foundation of citizenship has persisted for over two millennia, but...
To speak of a medieval surveillance state is anachronistic, but not entirely misplaced. Though decentralized and diffuse,...
The troubles and suffering of Jewish immigrants. By Dr. Bernard Weinstein1Emeritus Professor of Applied EconomicsUniversity of North...
The more we historicize prediction, the more we see its role not only as a mirror of...
The modern gaze, filtered through lenses, algorithms, and scans, is heir to a much older logic. What...
To understand the present is not to discover novelty, but to recognize continuity. Today’s digital behavioral engineering...
By tracing how past rulers manipulated meaning, we gain sharper tools to recognize when the same sleights...
The language that cloaks privilege is often older than we realize, echoing through cathedrals and corporate boardrooms...
Dictatorship thrives not only on the whip and the gun, but on the frame and the filter....
The stories of Akkad, the Maya, and Rome offer more than cautionary tales; they offer insight into...
The Medieval Warm Period created space for expansion, but much of that expansion was borne by peasants...
Rivers did not stay put. Coastlines receded. Earthquakes reshaped terrain. These disruptions did more than challenge surveying...
Tea became popular with Zen Buddhist monks as it was thought to aid meditation and ward off...
For this great master of the form, eating offered a model for the sensuous consumption of her...
By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction: Reconstructing the Neanderthal Male Prehistoric Neanderthals—Homo neanderthalensis—once evoked brutish caricatures in...
The migrations of Bronze Age men were seismic forces that shaped genetic maps, political systems, and gender...
To create life was to both bless and burden the body that carried it. By Matthew A....
Women carved out spaces for ritual, healing, and survival — often in defiance of the systems that...
Pregnancy evolved from a feared consequence of sin to a celebrated pillar of civic virtue — but...
By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction In the vast expanse of Chinese legend, few tales capture the...
Heliocentrism’s triumph reshaped the epistemological foundations of knowledge itself. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction The intellectual...
In the 19th century, astronomers could see Mars through telescopes, but not clearly. By Dr. Matthew ShindellCurator,...
An example of how wealth and power in the ancient world were often built on the suffering...
Wealth and power were built on the exploitation of the lower classes. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate...
Gould accumulated vast wealth and power through a series of exploitative practices. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate...
In antiquity, control of water was synonymous with control of life. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction:...
The medieval era was a time of hydraulic experimentation, adaptation, and diffusion. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate...