Both during slavery and after, the power structures of American society confined many black women to the...
Several of the martial arts which became popular in medieval Japan were introduced from China. By Mark...
Feudalism (hoken seido) began to be widespread in Japan from the beginning of the Kamakura Period (1185-1333...
In 1867, the US bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a tidy sum of $7.2 million....
Franklin was the 14th state of America. If you haven’t heard of it, that’s because it only...
An assignment for Life magazine about poverty in Brazil introduces photographer Gordon Parks to Flávio da Silva...
For nearly a century, Quilombo of Palmares was an Afro-Brazilian state, populated and run by people who...
The language of gender identity wasn’t what it is today. By Jud Esty-Kendall, Afi Yellow-Duke, and Emma...
The Supreme Court will decide in the next year whether sexual orientation and gender identity are covered...
In what ways do we associate movement—the ability to go anywhere and be anyone—with freedom? How do...
In 1776, a 24-year-old Quaker woman named Jemima Wilkinson died of fever, and came back to life...
Israel’s occupation and oppression of Palestinians is either ignored or perceived as required to achieve the end...
There is a desire to label anyone criticizing Israel in any way as “antisemitic”. There is a...
Armed conflict in Syria has been a disaster for the area’s cultural heritage. A displaced archaeologist describes...
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why...
The stories behind the pictures. By Diarmid Mogg Martin Fobes woke up to the sound of officers...
More than 200 years ago, a group of Philadelphian reformers had a utopian vision of how prisons...
What we have here is government by plutocratic authoritarians who’ll gleefully dole out millions to a wealthy...
A small and ornate book opens up to reveal one of the great masterpieces of Renaissance manuscript...
Despite the restrictions women faced, her art collections demonstrate important renaissance themes. Introduction In European history classes,...
She caused a furor when she coined “the banality of evil” to describe mindless acts of Nazi...
True or False? Franklin Delano Roosevelt claimed to be a conservative defender of the nation’s founding ideals....
How the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Venetian empires interacted with each other and how their competition over southeastern...
Ancient Rome and its empire had the concept of asylum at its heart. Its legacy provided inspiration...
Writing under the title of “If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim”, Moustafa Bayoumi stated the...
Despite racist and anti-immigrant scapegoating, data shows that most American terrorists are resentful White men inspired by...
Examining what prompted the backlash of black British people against the police. By Rowena Hillel and Vicky...
About 3000 resisters, many under the age of 25, were tried in German military courts in France...
Three important factors are driving domestic terrorism. The recent mass murder at Walmart in El Paso was...
Typical narratives about 1919’s anti-black collective violence, especially in school textbooks, often conclude abruptly. This summer marks...