How a 17th-century nun wrote poetry, dramas, and comedies that took on the inequities and double standards...
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The 1,000-year-old mound conforms to the natural topography of the site. A Serpent 1300 Feet Long The...
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From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Disneyland, the concept has represented both the experimental and the conventional. In the...
Texas cattle trails, cattle drives, and the people who worked them. Originally published by the Texas Alliance...
Vast amounts of black property were taken by unscrupulous individual use of legal trickery. I recently read...
After the Civil War, Rose Herera wanted more than freedom – she wanted justice. Early in 1865,...
A virtual tour of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Originally published by Lapham’s Quarterly,...
The findings are some of the earliest evidence of cannabis used as a drug. People have been...
In Asia, because of its huge land mass and multiple diverse cultures, there are several overlapping timelines....
Napoleon didn’t like sitting for portraits, and yet artists and mass market prints helped cement his legendary...
Most of these Americans left behind little evidence explaining why they took up arms for the French...
The author, Burt Neuborne, is one of America’s top civil liberties lawyers, and questions whether federal government...
Lincoln has generally been absent as a model in European social and public life, rarely emphasized as...
The exponential growth of his popularity built into a memorial crescendo. Lincoln’s ascension to the status of...
Every right-wing authoritarian movement has one thing in common: a brutal clampdown on any persons or groups...
Through the trauma of war, and by learning from his mistakes, the first president gained empathy and...
The first president was indispensable to our early republic, precisely because he didn’t see himself as indispensable....
It was unparalleled, this confluence of public health, politics, clinical medicine, and public anxiety. The following is...
During the past two decades, historians of twentieth-century Britain have delineated the landscape of a “modern sexual...
“If Gaza had a normal flow of trade and investment, the region would have a much stronger...
By midcentury, Victorian natural historians seemed hungry for information from formerly inaccessible regions of Africa. With a...
Darwin to understand the convergence of disparate scales of geological and human history. The event now known...
What were the links between abolition and imperialism in East Africa? Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections...
Most traditional religions in Africa have developed at the local level and are unique to a particular...
The collapse of the Cold War–era nuclear arms treaty signals trouble for U.S.-Russia relations, European security, and...