Examining how topographical views were often the result of artists touring in Britain and beyond. The lawyer Sir...
Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most influential scientists of the 19th century. His discoveries have...
Copernicus caused a revolution in contemporary knowledge by stating that science, not religion, explains how the universe...
States’ rights and slavery, while theoretically distinct, were in praxis intertwined. Here’s what a Jeffersonian analysis of...
To twenty-first-century Americans, the case against slavery may appear self-evident. However, nineteenth-century opponents of slavery faced a...
When oligarchs fill the coffers of political candidates, they neuter democracy. I keep hearing that the Democratic...
Many machinists even created their own variations of the difference engine after Babbage’s death. Introduction The 2008...
Telecommunication would prove to be a powerful agent of change. Rivers flood, some more regularly than others....
Joshua J. Mark tells of his journey to this magical ancient site that has become a symbol...
An interview with Curator Virginia Novoa Espinoza about the museum’s magnificent collection and the artistry of Costa...
Discussing a young Guy de Maupassant was invited to lunch at the holiday cottage of Algernon Swinburne....
Exploring the importance of his first dramatic work and how in it can be seen the themes...
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a growth in the inland exploration of Latin America. Introduction The...
From as early as the pre-Columbian era, there existed networks of exchange among the early civilizations of...
The United States should stop treating the region as secondary to the rest of the Middle East....
The cultural context in which African bodies were represented in objects is strikingly different from what we...
African cultures never existed in isolation—there was always movement, trade, and the exchange of ideas. Introduction Early...
The Waffen-SS was just one of many strange organizations to emerge from Nazi Germany. The military collapse...
Exploring relationships between the Great Migration and the civil rights struggle in northern cities and, especially, Chicago...
History and civil rights are intertwined at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site at Moton Field in...
Multinational corporations are increasingly encroaching on the functions of sovereign states. By Lorenzo Marsili “There is no...
It’s long past time for a reckoning. When, in his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned...
Monopoly’s roots begin with a woman—a progressive named Elizabeth Magie. For generations, the story of Monopoly’s Depression-era...
Chicago’s “Eleanor Clubs” were designed to give young, working women affordable and congenial places to live. By...
It was one of the most important Southern cities in the war and the only major Virginian...
The British chancellor and exchequer and his soldier sibling pushed the interests of the empire at the...
The consequences of the “reprobate’s” failure to change is not abstract at all; it’s happening now. By...
Born on July 18, 1635, this polymath broke ground in fields ranging from pneumatics, microscopy, mechanics and...
Sir Francis Bacon developed a method for philosophers to use in weighing the truthfulness of knowledge. How...
Immigration has been an important element of U.S. economic and cultural vitality since the country’s founding. This...