Poetry may well have been Maffeo Barberini’s first and most important inclination. Introduction In the early years...
History
Why we all have some irrational beliefs and the reason they give us comfort. Introduction Growing up...
The story of the Louisiana Purchase is more than just a quick deal among the top French...
How the speech’s meaning was recast from democracy to equality. Introduction During the Cold War agents of...
Democracy’s meaning and significance altered in a relatively gradual and piecemeal fashion. Introduction Democracy is like a...
Examining the city’s rich history and recovery after being devastated in the past. Introduction In the late...
A report to the US president sounded an alarm — humankind was ‘conducting a vast geophysical experiment’....
The 1927 disaster exposed a country divided by stereotypes, united by modernity. On May 1, 1927, The New...
The first blow in the struggle had been struck a century earlier. Introduction Revolutions always take the...
The Bolsheviks wanted a centralized “socialist” state over which they could rule. Introduction On 17 March 1917,...
The party leadership felt too embattled on too many fronts to risk a split at the top....
A reconstruction of separate, conservative, universal elements of the ancient world view is feasible. Abstract Numerous burials...
Information gathering towards members of minority groups by bureaucratic organizations has a startling history. The recent rise...
A medieval past and an imagined future can still find ways to ‘touch’. Abstract Sometime after 1188,...
The political movement responded in many ways to such provocations. Introduction Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise was...
Throughout human history, the thrill of taking risks and testing fate has been deeply ingrained in our...
Egyptian kings demonstrated centralized control and stability by maintaining a physical presence in cult locations. Introduction The...
The common secret among the Nenzit sub-groups was the disguise of the voice of the Abwoi with...
The traditional ways of Bantu belief systems has been encroached upon by Christianity and Islam. Introduction Bantu...
A comprehensive, systematic, and dispassionate analysis of the relationship between the two events. That there was a...
Publisher John Binns publicly proposed printing a large, ceremonial engraving of the text. Numerous ceremonial copies of...
She removed the Charters of Freedom from their earlier encasements to perform examinations and treatments. When Chief...
The importance of religious cults in creating the “corporate image” of the Theodosian dynasty. Introduction “His faith...
Examining the medieval development of record-keeping by the London craft and merchant guilds. In 1484 the accounts...
Examining Mayhew’s repackaging of his interviews with London “street-folk” from 1849 onwards. London Labour and the London...
The interactions with the stronger forces of the period certainly stigmatized the area. Introduction The Aetolian League...
The characterization of raiding as ‘primitive’ reinforced modernization narratives of ‘civilization’. Introduction ‘A raid is hardly more...
He saw military strength as the means to achieve national greatness. Introduction I will have no criticism...
This technology has been part of the human imagination for thousands of years. Robots have histories that...
Ancient Greek engineers who could construct automata established themselves in Alexandria. Introduction The history of robots has its origins...