In China, many Buddhists hope for birth in a buddha-land so they can complete their path under...
The CCP has little to celebrate in terms of what it has done for China. Its chief...
It was not until the Goryeo period that royal patronage focused on the production of a specific...
Kashmir has been in conflict since 1947, despite repeated UN and U.S. interventions. Introduction An armed conflict...
Combining archaeological evidence, aerial scans and machine learning algorithms, researchers modeled how this medieval city grew over...
Fighting against federal authority is a political tradition in the South – and resisting federal guidance to...
Most Americans do not realize that even in the supposedly liberal North, black students were excluded from...
There’s plenty to critique about sorority culture. But going after Southern accents is punching down. Introduction As...
Exploring Graeco-Roman reading culture through one of its best-preserved and most lavishly-illustrated artefacts. This article, Reading Like...
LGBTQ parents want to know their family will be respected. Introduction Many parents want to ensure that...
Worship of Thoth began in Lower Egypt most likely in the Pre-Dynastic Period (c. 6000-3150 BCE). Introduction...
Sometimes, your brain fails to keep up with the times. It can be very frustrating when you...
All great achievements start with lofty goals. That goes for fitness, finance, and all the things in...
This fuels rampant violence in Mexico, contributing to the country’s tens of thousands of homicides every year....
For over a century, the Mexican authorities have sought to extract money from the drug trade by...
For 300 years, Mexico was a Spanish colony and the center of a huge administrative area called...
The post-Diaz Mexican state sponsored the creation of a mural movement in an effort to express and...
Here’s what you need to know about the past, present, and future of this harmful policy. After...
Peruvian Carlos Baca Flor excelled in the study of the nude model and Colombian artist Francisco A....
Because of a lot of complexities and stress present in our day-to-day lives, we all find it...
It’s a crisis that’s testing families, communities, and the social safety net. By Christianna Silva Introduction With...
“Simultaneously representing, complicating, and furthering the discourse on the Appalachian region and its cultures.” By Dr. Katherine...
For many of the children who don’t get enough to eat, the consequences could last a lifetime....
A scholar of the Ottoman Empire discusses a history of Palestinians’ claims to land being ignored. By...
How global poverty relates to hunger and how you can take action to save lives. Around the...
Being in debt was once an artful promenade — the process of eluding creditors through disguise and...
The global shipping industry’s annual greenhouse-gas emissions total more than one billion tons. Delegates from governments around...
The first recorded use of a Jolly Roger ‘black flag’ is on the ship of Emmanuel Wynne,...
Examining three metrics which measure the environmental performance of ships. Shipping and the Environment Overview Shipping is...
Some of the more common expressions and slang terms that pirates, and mariners in general, used. Introduction...