Literature inspired by the tension between Sumerian farmers and herdsmen who both required land. Introduction The Debate...
Literature
Enter the worlds created by poets, playwrights, novelists, and storytellers across time. Explore influential works and the lives behind them while tracing how literature preserves memory and challenges societies to imagine themselves differently.
Viewed within its historical moment, The Great Gatsby reveals how the dream of equality and opportunity had...
The history of the Battle of Waterloo, as well as the biographies of the two powerful adversaries...
The hymn was preserved orally because it had become a popular song and was finally committed to...
How did Renaissance writers and artists portray the European exploration of the Americas? Originally published by Newberry...
Romans created a link between their history and the Trojan War by associating a hero from the...
He spent more than three years volunteering. By Dr. Richard GundermanChancellor’s Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and...
“Woe to the land that’s govern’d by a child.” By Dr. David Sterling BrownAssociate Professor of EnglishTrinity...
Late medieval people used osculation in several rituals adapted from the pre-Christian past. Introduction In a twelfth-century...
The stories were infused with socio-metaphysical allegories regarding women and worth. The vast popularity of ghost stories...
The commercial and cultural energies of London necessarily shaped some of the characteristics of its reading public....
Their first one hundred years. Curated by Hillary BradyFormer Digital Content SpecialistNational Air and Space MuseumSmithsonian Institution...
For this great master of the form, eating offered a model for the sensuous consumption of her...
Children’s literature serves a significant role in nurturing the emotional and social development of young readers. Books...
It is a visionary and profound work that transcends its 19th-century origins. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate...
Whatever purpose the song served, it was clearly popular as many copies have been found. Introduction The Song...
Fuller had long felt trapped between two competing impulses. By Dr. Randall FullerHerman Melville Distinguished Professor of...
The ways in which women a century ago were claiming more autonomy. By Stephanie GortonAuthor A full...
There is a long tradition in China of associating monkeys with the mind. Introduction One summer afternoon...
Baffling objects in the sky. By Joshua Blu BuhsAuthor Albany, New York, 6 August 1874. Charles Hoy...
Knowledge is power is a quotation that has been run into the ground behind a whole host...
British land policies that vastly exacerbated peasant indebtedness were chief culprits. Introduction This article examines British writing...
The Wycliffite Bible may have been an open source project that elicited the first expression of hacker...
Ancient Stoicism aimed to be a complete philosophy encompassing ethics, physics, and logic. Introduction Stoicism may be...
Posthumously active dead people – the living or restless dead. By Dr. Kirsi KanervaDepartment of CulturesUniversity of...
For Thoreau, the world is never finished. By Dr. Antonio Casado da RochaResearch FellowIAS-Research Center for Life,...
Print culture history encompasses many stages. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction Print culture embodies all forms...
Most medieval scribes gathered together as they copied. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction A manuscript culture is...
Steampunk features anachronistic technologies. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by,...
Making sure LGBTQ+ stories are still heard. By Sara Youngblood GregoryJournalist and Writer Introduction It’s not hard...