City founders expected an outpost of New England. What they created was a paragon of immigrant civic...
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A substantial amount of the artifacts in the Thracian archaeological record comes from diverse cultural and stylistic...
The similarities between the effigies of James Meredith and the thousands of black bodies hanged and burned...
There were moments in our history where both African-American freedom and Mexico’s independence were addressed in a...
Herod built on a Roman scale. King Herod had a substantial architectural heritage to his name in...
Baalbek is a town in the northern Bekaa valley, the site of the largest sanctuary in the...
The statue of the goddess of victory was excavated in 1863 CE on the Greek island of...
The Lacedaemonians abandoned the grand strategy they had articulated early on. Introduction In ancient Lacedaemon, as in...
Residents in a rural Puerto Rican community are reviving a historic botanical garden to serve as an...
Ten moments to help better understand Puerto Rico. Introduction In January 2018, President Donald Trump made a...
Emile Herman Grubbe discovered the x-rays could cure, but he was right for the wrong reasons. Radiation...
For over 500 years, scientific and artistic collaborations have enhanced and promoted medical knowledge. Introduction From the early...
The use of this technique is meant to empower the sovereign to control subjects who collectively might...
By Steven Fife During his reign as dictator from 49-44 BC, Julius Caesar had a number of notable impacts...
How did the Ottomans shape the political and religious history of early modern Europe? Originally published by...
The splintering of the medieval church ushered in a volatile new era of increased anxiety, tension, and...
Although magic and witchcraft had existed since antiquity, early modern Europe underwent a growth in anxiety about...
How monks, friars and monastic sites became associated with magic in popular tradition, resulting in a lasting...
The devil, once a part of the sacred truth, could now be seen as a fragment of...
Demons and artists, it seems, pull from the same bag of tricks. They take ordinary matter and...
An analysis forces us to ask what we mean by political agency. By Laura Spinney Eleanor of...
Although Ptolemy III and Berenice II were cousins, they proclaimed themselves siblings as children of Ptolemy II...
The origins of Iraqi cuisine and continued popularity. Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning “between two rivers”) was...
The conquered areas of Elam, Media, Lydia, Babylonia, Egypt, and several eastern Iranian tribes were more or...
By the late Bronze Age, the Hurrians had been assimilated into surrounding cultures in the Near East....
Discussing the importance of these civilizations, and of how we can better assess and understand their legacy...
Big money has always played an important role in U.S. political campaigns, but its influence has been...
As mid-century Americans moved to cities, Cara’s film helped to idealize isolated white communities. It’s a Wonderful...
It’s a Wonderful Life prescribed community and empathy as the remedy to a callous economic system. From...