The recent spate of anti-abortion legislation is rooted in White extinction anxiety and carries on a long...
Photographs documenting pivotal events in the struggle for civil rights in the United States. Overview This exhibition...
We need a historical understanding of how lynching discourse continues to shape America’s enduring “dialogue on race.”...
The Archivio Storico Diocesano di Lucca does not easily let visitors forget its history or its owner....
The European Middle Ages were a time of tremendous creativity and innovation, setting the stage for what...
Exploring how China’s economic and diplomatic ties to the outside world shaped its modern history. Originally published...
The publishing history of No-No Boy shows how writers shifted the narrative about internment and draft resistance....
Born in Seattle in 1920, Harry Fukuhara was fully bicultural, bilingual, and binational. When I first met...
How siblings torn between two sides of the Pacific forged identities in the aftermath of war. I...
These ancient manuscripts cover every aspect of human endeavor. Introduction Timbuktu, Mali, is the legendary city founded...
Glass beads, more than any other type of artifact, help us make sense of the last 600...
Perhaps there’s room now for a type of history that moves smoothly between human and animal subjectivities....
The period of the Reformation (roughly 1500-1700) witnessed an unprecedented wave of changes in religion, thought, society,...
The early years of printing in Western Europe was a time of astonishing productivity. Originally published by...
Monasteries in the Early Middle Ages already had rudimentary rules and guidelines. Introduction The monastic orders of...
The Church regulated and defined an individual’s life, literally, from birth to death and was thought to...
What did medieval Christians believe about women’s nature and social roles? How did they express these beliefs...
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Christianity has heard the term ‘Church Fathers’ but far less...
Elizabeth Warren’s newest plan goes beyond limiting the private role in mass incarceration, and seeks to prevent...
How were spices used by medieval Europeans, and why were spices so valuable in medieval Europe? Originally...
Images of a cockatoo in Frederick II of Sicily’s falconry book reveal how trade routes around Australia’s...
The Black Death struck in 1348, 1362, 1368, 1381, and continued even into the 18th century. 1348...
The history of surgery is a fascinating collection of knowledge from various civilizations dating back up to...
In Europe between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, fireworks displays were performances that told a story or...
Half a continent west of the 13 colonies, the Lakota Sioux were founding a nation of their...
From the coins we count to the democracy we practice, the mother country’s influence is holding strong...
Who identified as “American” during the Revolution? To what extent did the American Revolution serve the interests...
If we’re cowardly, we must steel ourselves; if we’re tired, we must wake ourselves; if we’re paralyzed,...
Exploring the changing meaning and significance of the American Revolution during the 18th and 19th Centuries. Originally...
In 1775, opposition became armed rebellion. Many of the participants of the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, including...