Pope Urban’s motives in preaching the First Crusade are unclear. By Sarah Hough Dickinson College Pope Urban’s...
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Walter Lippmann / Public Domain The interwar period was a moment of deep crisis everywhere. By Dr....
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A fresco by Cesare Maccari (1840-1919 CE) depicting Roman senator Cicero (106-43 BCE) denouncing the conspirator Catiline...
Illustration by Sean Quinn Urban areas present an interesting challenge — and a big opportunity — for...
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Statue of Alexander Hamilton by James Earle Fraser in front of the United States Treasury Building in...
Illustration of a workroom where several men use machines and tools to craft prosthetics / National Library...
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The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople, by Eugene Delacroix, 1840 / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons The...
Desecrated Christian icons in Turkey / Photo by Georges Jansoone JoJan, Göreme Valley Open Air Museum, Cappadocia,...
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Brysa Hill ruins / Creative Commons Genocide is often viewed as a particular feature of our own...
Skeletal remains of a group of foragers massacred around 10,000 years ago on the shores of a...
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Law enforcement officials have begun using commercial and bespoke hacking tools to interfere with computer systems in...
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