Analyzing how three maps of Barbados promoted a flattering image of British colonialism in the Caribbean. To...
Throughout history, individuals, states, or political factions have gained sovereignty over regions through the use of war....
As western civilization emerged, power struggles and technological advancements gave birth to new empires and saw their...
Elizabeth Van Lew was a Richmond, Virginia abolitionist and philanthropist who built and operated an extensive spy...
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The observation of the sky was of considerable importance to the Maya, Aztecs and other prehisanic peoles...
Since the beginning of humankind, the fascination with the celestial vault has been regarded as an important...
Pisistratus’s story as a tyrant of Athens offered a powerful script for interpreting Robespierre’s actions, and a...
Basville’s private correspondence reveals aspects of his character that deepen our understanding of the intendancy in the...
Exploring the dominant influence of religious notions in people’s worldview, providing meaning and powerfully influencing their cognitions,...
Not all religions follow the same practices but there are some similarities between most, if not all,...
This has even opened the door to alliances between groups that once would have had nothing to...
Howard Thurman, a mentor to MLK, first met Gandhi during a visit to India in 1936. He...
Transformed in the 1950s from a sharecropper shack that was built probably in the 1920s, Poor Monkey’s...
Through its representation of physical and psychological effects, Séjour’s story inaugurated the literary delineation of slavery’s submission-rebellion...
Sumūd the nonviolent everyday practices or resistance by Palestinians to Israeli occupation. Introduction In Palestine, the practice...
Early Israelite religion may once have shared the Canaanite belief in El and other gods, before the...
The Levant stretches 400 miles north to south from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert, and...
These industries are among the country’s worst water polluters. By Jasmine Spearing-Bowen and Karl Schneider In Ringwood,...
The Trump administration wants to end federal protection under the Clean Water Act for many small streams...
In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Philipp Moritz — from the peace of Lake Biel...
Reality had always been viewed as a single unfolding history. Stapp postulated another physical, not spiritual, world. I knew Orrill Stapp before I...
Capitalism and government intervention are not an either/or choice. Eighty-eight years ago, the freewheeling, free-market economy of...
It’s a common mistake of both left and right to talk about capitalism and socialism as if...
The Socialist League was one of several early socialist groups which arose in Great Britain during the...
In an age of electronic communication it is easy to forget the vital role that letter-writing played...
Waterhouse’s images of Circe, sirens and sorceresses raise a number of questions. By Michelle Bonollo Mr Waterhouse...
The only possible response can be that it is no one’s and everyone’s. The death of Martin...
Arthur Balfour was a complex character, hard to read. His reasons for backing Zionism may have been...