The All-T’oqapu Tunic is an example of the height of Andean textile fabrication and its centrality to...
Despite the textile’s small size, it contains a vast amount of information about the people who lived...
After many decades of neglect, the story of slavery in the North is reentering collective memories in...
Underground Railroad activists and fugitive slaves had to improvise in response to ever-shifting circumstances. When I’ve used...
Preserving foodstuffs by mechanical refrigeration became an industrial possibility only in the 1870s and 1880s. The refrigerator...
Guilds dominated local politics and influenced national and international affairs. Introduction Guilds existed throughout Europe during the...
The first of a century of many inept emperors following the death of Marcus Aurelius. Introduction Commodus...
Marcus’ goal was to become the best – most virtuous – person that he was able to...
Consumption of one or other form of intoxicating substances has been present throughout the history of the...
In our republic, elected officials ought to be representative of, and responsive to, the voters. California has...
We talk excitedly about meeting someone with whom we ‘click’ or ‘really hit it off.’ So why do so many of us hesitate...
The irrelevance of the heart to love has been amply demonstrated by cardiac transplant surgeons. In William...
There is an Option C that benefits the wealthy and the not-so-much. A friend sent me an...
Historically, pleasure was not the only, or even the main, expectation from sex for women in a...
Rubbish excavated from brothels sheds light on sex workers’ lives in the 19th century. Despite the dangers,...
Trump is suspending U.S. participation in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and is beginning the process of...
Actual divorce allowing remarriage could only be granted by parliament. The government’s current consultation (closing on 10 December)...
The Exchange of Arrows Between Death and Cupid, ca. 1665–1701, Pierre Landry (publisher). Engraving. The Getty Research...
An interview with Mohsen Sazegara, exiled dissident, journalist and writer from Iran. When I sat down with...
Qajars first settled during the Mongol period in the vicinity of Armenia and were among the seven...
Imagining a love letter from Putin to Trump. Greetings from Moscow, dear Donald! It was nice seeing you...
A discussion of Avicenna’s 11th-century points of view on rabies and compare them with modern medical knowledge....
Among the first three manuscripts written in Persian, Akhawayni’s Hidayat al-muta’allemin fi al-tibb was the most significant work compiled...
The earliest remains of Persepolis date back to 515 BCE. It exemplifies the Achaemenid style of architecture....
Darius was the ruler of a multicultural empire, and he was willing to accept the gods of...
A measles outbreak is causing major concern in a Washington county where only 22 percent of children...
The pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and woo spreading across the world wreaks havoc on those that buy into it. News of anti-vaxxer movements,...
Rebecca Rego Barry on Dr. David Hosack, the doctor who attended Alexander Hamilton to his duel (and...
The illustrations in medieval herbals are beautiful and mysterious. But if you know how to read them,...
Yma Sumac’s career embodied many of the contradictions that emerge when the international desire to consume exoticism...