The Spanish Civil War was seen as very much of a piece with the war against Hitler...
Where does the ‘religion’ end and the ‘populism’ begin? Ben Ryan speaks of the use of Christianity...
The only way to stop them is to call them out at every turn. By Darrell Lucus...
The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. Introduction...
Shrouded in secrecy, ancient mystery cults fascinate and capture the imagination. Shrouded in secrecy, ancient mystery cults...
A good first step would be for everyone to hold a vision of universal human values. By...
The land remains and still presents the international community with one of its most challenging conflicts. The entire...
The Canaanites were the people who inhabited the land of what is now Israel and Palestine before...
Canaanite religion was polytheistic, and in some cases monolatristic. Introduction Canaanite religion refers to the group of...
At first, the Cuban revolution seemed doomed to fail. Sixty years ago, Fidel Castro launched an audacious bid to...
By Christopher Woolf In 2016, Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit Cuba since...
Thomas Jefferson crafted a letter to John Adams in a delayed reply to several other letters on...
As the first residents of the White House, they began, under difficult conditions, a 200-year tradition of...
A conceptual sculpture made entirely of ice brought attention to global warming and redefined monuments as ephemeral...
Aristotle studied developing organisms, among other things, in ancient Greece, and his writings shaped Western philosophy and...
Looking at the Precambrian and Phanerozoic Eons. Introduction The geological history of Earth follows the major events...
In 1920 the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was declared. History The first settlements in the territory...
The Rus are first mentioned in the Annals of Saint-Bertin. Introduction Kievan Rus (862-1242 CE) was a...
The United Constitutional Patriots are just one in a long line of anti-immigrant groups who try to...
The “Roma” and Travelers are not a single, homogeneous group of people. The terms Gypsies, Roma, and...
After capturing Constantinople in 1204, the Fourth Crusaders established several states in former Byzantine territory. Starting from...
Violence attributed to online hate speech has increased worldwide. Societies confronting the trend must deal with questions...
The discovery of lapis lazuli pigment preserved in the dental calculus of a religious woman in Germany...
The codex didn’t catch on until surprisingly late in the ancient world. By Benjamin HarnettClassics Scholar A...
This witch-hunt harmed even more people than did the Red Scare, often trying to throw people under...
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?” Introduction In the...
After about 1244 CE, the city remained a backwater of the late medieval Muslim empires and would...
Jews living in Europe were easy, early targets for Crusaders while life was comparatively tranquil in Islamic...
Both countries have defined their relationship as a “comprehensive strategic partnership.” Addressing last year’s Shangri-La Dialogue in...
Cultural, economic, and knowledge transfer occurred in spite of a seemingly long series of hurdles that had...