Sex between people of the same gender has existed for millennia. But anthropologists in sub-Saharan Africa often...
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Contrasting nineteenth-century ideas (including Livingstone’s own) about fever with modern ideas about the causes and appropriate treatment...
A detailed description of Livingstone’s medical education and an overview of how his education affected his recording...
So-called heresies offered the opportunity for religious expression outside of the narrowly defined and self-serving precepts of...
What social conditions contributed to the revolution? How did the United States seek to influence events in...
The relationship between power—or politics—and culture in French history is an ambivalent one, defined as much by...
Exploring how novel Oroonoko compares to other representations of race, slavery, and colonialism in the seventeenth and...
Nasty wenches, deputy husbands, and other female survivors of Early America. “Nir nir nir,” that is,“me me...
A hundred years ago, Charles Hatfield cashed in on America’s weakness for quick fixes – even if...
In 1915, new creature comforts created by technology merged with the back-to-nature movement. On August 21, 1915,...
As the automobile industry took off, drivers discovered the romance and freedom of long-distance travel. Tens of...
Portraits, landscape paintings, drawings, and historical maps flesh out the cultural history. By Jennifer Smart A rare,...
Without doubt, this process fostered the vascularization of science in receiving countries. By Dr. Francisco Javier Dosil...
Capra’s films are known for being upbeat and sometimes cheesy, but beneath the surface are rather dark...
Culling impressions of the twentieth century from a vivid but imperfect source. In 1921, New Yorker Rosie...
We need a historical understanding of how lynching discourse continues to shape America’s enduring “dialogue on race.”...
The European Middle Ages were a time of tremendous creativity and innovation, setting the stage for what...
The publishing history of No-No Boy shows how writers shifted the narrative about internment and draft resistance....
Born in Seattle in 1920, Harry Fukuhara was fully bicultural, bilingual, and binational. When I first met...
Perhaps there’s room now for a type of history that moves smoothly between human and animal subjectivities....
Monasteries in the Early Middle Ages already had rudimentary rules and guidelines. Introduction The monastic orders of...
The Church regulated and defined an individual’s life, literally, from birth to death and was thought to...
The U.S. and Israel were instrumental in the establishment of the dictatorship of the Ayatollahs. By Eitay...
Images of a cockatoo in Frederick II of Sicily’s falconry book reveal how trade routes around Australia’s...
From the coins we count to the democracy we practice, the mother country’s influence is holding strong...
Who identified as “American” during the Revolution? To what extent did the American Revolution serve the interests...
Exploring the changing meaning and significance of the American Revolution during the 18th and 19th Centuries. Originally...
In 1775, opposition became armed rebellion. Many of the participants of the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, including...
After WWI, German psychiatrists diagnosed traumatized soldiers as having “hysteria,” othering the men to somewhat disastrous effect....
While in the Balkans, Celtic tribes managed to conquer several Greek, Illyrian, and Thracian armies, carving out...