They helped assist their respective commanders with an accuracy and clarity unmatched by technology. By Garet Anderson-Lind...
History
Since their introduction in the early 20th century, plates have served several uses. By Dr. Miriam PinskiResearch...
Roman names have echoed for millennia. What went into them? The Triple Name Nothing is more familiar...
From papyrus to AI, the history of restricted access to technology reveals a consistent interplay of innovation...
The disappearance of technologies across history reminds us that invention is not a steady ascent but a...
Ancient rituals and philosophical dialogues prefigure modern therapies, while technologies from trephines to smartphones mediate the therapeutic...
Ancient education was never monolithic. It reflected and reproduced the inequalities of its time, yet it also...
The history of student foreign exchange and educational migration is inseparable from the history of power, empire,...
Collectively, these tools chart the shifting priorities of education: from moral instruction to standardization, from vocational preparation...
Genocide by definition. By Dr. Rosalyn R. LaPierProfessor of HistoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Introduction I am...
The lesson of antiquity is that technological ingenuity was never absent. What was absent were economic structures...
Medieval record-keeping technology encompassed more than quills and parchment. It represented a cultural shift toward inscription as...
Neural networks matured into deep learning, Bayesian reasoning undergirds modern probabilistic AI, and reinforcement learning powers today’s...
Powell continued to practice medicine as a civilian. More than 180,000 African Americans—some free born, some escaped...
The craze for castrati in England started relatively late. Introduction For most of the people in this...
The ancient study of the brain was never purely scientific nor purely mystical. It arose from the...
By the close of the nineteenth century, prosthetics had moved from artisanal oddities to standardized commodities. They...
People were making a binding gesture not just with the Gospels, but also with the civic law....
Late medieval people used osculation in several rituals adapted from the pre-Christian past. Introduction In a twelfth-century...
To remember the ancients is to remember that law does not simply protect; it can dominate, sanctify...
A nation born in rebellion against centralized authority has repeatedly turned to its presidents to enforce order...
To describe this expansion is not to celebrate or condemn, but to recognize the profound transformation of...
Globally, cats have accompanied humans since ancient times, beginning in Western Asia almost 10,000 years ago. They were...
Vodou’s origins are diverse, and it developed initially among the enslaved population. Introduction Who is this man...
Interpretations that suggest Ragnarøk motifs in Viking age iconography. Introduction Despite its character of being a well-known...
Our earliest teachings on Christianity are from the letters of a Pharisee. By Dr. Rebecca DenovaEmeritus Professor...
Discussing the distinctive nature of Hinduism and its sacred texts, drawing on the Vedas and epic compositions....
Religion was the first passport. Without the sacred credential, there was no true political inclusion. Migrants did...
The medieval workplace cannot be understood apart from its religious context. To work in medieval Europe was...
Pasteurization’s success is so complete that it often becomes invisible, a background technology of safety like chlorination...