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...
From Britain to Hungary to Italy, the far right is on the rise. openDemocracy investigations over the...
How does Upton Sinclair’s representation of this community in The Jungle compare to the accounts of sociologists...
What were working conditions like in Chicago during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What efforts...
The Raise the Wage Act is an opportunity for Congress to restore dignity to work and stability...
If you were lucky enough to exist in the wealthiest sets of society… The “Gilded Age,” a...
Let’s adventure back to Colonial America—a time of exploration, revolution, taverns and….fast food? Yes, that’s right, fast...
April 1865 marked the beginning of a new battle for American abolitionists. On the same morning that...
“The first day I devoted to bidding a sad, though silent farewell to my people; for I...
North Korea has embarked on an accelerated buildup of weapons of mass destruction and modernization of its...
The latitude line passing between the North and the South has separated generations of families. The Korean...
The ancients constructed the pagodas complying with design principles based on the arithmetic and geometric proportional systems....
Because of its geography and location, Cilicia was among the most important regions of the classical world....
Galatia was situated in eastern Phrygia, a region now within modern-day Turkey. By Jeffrey KingHistorian Introduction Galatia...
U.S. space exploration inspired a generation of students and innovators, but NASA’s role has diminished, and the...
The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to...
While the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing is an opportunity to celebrate a remarkable technological...
Two hundred years after New England’s first great hurricane, we ask very different questions about the nature...
While we’re losing biological diversity, we’re also losing linguistic and cultural diversity at the same time. This...
Touring with urban geology in mind. By David B. Williams In this age of concrete and glass,...
About 19,000 years ago in southwestern France at a site called Saint-Germain-La-Rivière, an adult woman dies and...
Poet-politician Joel Barlow personified an ideology borne of religious antipathy and economic rivalry. No sooner had the...