Piracy was engaged in by governments and was often considered a legitimate act of war. Introduction Piracy,...
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Exploring visual elements that deepens our comprehension of another world across the footlights and under the proscenium....
Celebrities of song, stage, and screen were transformed into popular icons of American culture. Introduction During the...
Kean’s acting style reframed the relation between the British theatrical tradition, the actor’s stage performance, and audience...
In the nineteenth century, enterprising toy makers developed a novel way to bring theater into the home....
In reading Plato as Plato-the-Philosopher, one misses the nuances of Plato-the-Artist. Introduction The Dialogues of the Greek philosopher Plato (l. 428/427-348-347 BCE) have...
The Peloponnesian war had been dragging on for 25 years, and the military situation was getting progressively...
How the struggle over blue laws changed American politics. Bergen County, New Jersey, is one of America’s...
Seventy-seven years ago, a telegram bearing a horrifying and unforgettable message reached America’s foremost Jewish leader. It...
Looking at ancient Israeli construction and architecture, writing, industrial tools, and weapons of war. Introduction Technology enabled...
Wealthy patrons, like kings and emperors, often commissioned prominent artists and architects to design their gardens. Introduction...
This garden is so vast and rich as to enclose within it many forms of pleasure not...
Neither the course nor the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War was foreseeable at its outset. Of the...
Examples of curse-fine epitaphs range all over the ancient world. Introduction The concept of a curse laid...
Riis as a writer, photographer, lecturer, advocate, and ally for reform to address the poverty many ignored....
Social class was prevalent and largely property-based in the colonies. The Colonial Elite Overview In New England...
The tale begins after Ra had created the world and was king of the gods and humanity....
One lived on in the presence of the gods, doing as one had done on earth, with...
New York’s Union Square is an important site in American labor history. One scholar’s research illustrates the...
From public notes and broadsides to catchpennies and printed songs, examining the variety of street literature which...
The history of the Society of Jesus’ first missions is a story of great journeys. Abstract During...
These works represent an artistic encounter between East and West. A Controversial Auction In 2009, two eighteenth-century...
The artist uses her craft to represent and raise awareness of Asian-American history and identity. Jasmine Cho...
They were all about family and work. “And so you know the difficulty in becoming an American....
The Whitney hall was once one of the crown jewels of the museum, alongside the halls of...
Clues from texts, objects, and science shed light on one of the greatest natural disasters in world...
They were considered the youthful bestowers of beauty in all its forms. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The Graces (alsoCharites, sing. Charis)...
What the epigraphic and archaeological evidence have shown. For centuries, worshippers of Artemis flocked to the ancient...
The changing significance of sacred groves (utaki) from medieval to contemporary Okinawa. Abstract This article discusses the...
Tea drinking in Japan became nothing less than an art form. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The Japanese...