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Ever wondered about the origin of universities? If so, this article is going to be of interest...
Assisted by Native Americans, they moved – and fought. Introduction In 1861, as Confederate armies prepared to...
Both during slavery and after, the power structures of American society confined many black women to the...
Several of the martial arts which became popular in medieval Japan were introduced from China. By Mark...
Feudalism (hoken seido) began to be widespread in Japan from the beginning of the Kamakura Period (1185-1333...
In 1867, the US bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a tidy sum of $7.2 million....
Franklin was the 14th state of America. If you haven’t heard of it, that’s because it only...
An assignment for Life magazine about poverty in Brazil introduces photographer Gordon Parks to Flávio da Silva...
For nearly a century, Quilombo of Palmares was an Afro-Brazilian state, populated and run by people who...
In what ways do we associate movement—the ability to go anywhere and be anyone—with freedom? How do...
In 1776, a 24-year-old Quaker woman named Jemima Wilkinson died of fever, and came back to life...
Armed conflict in Syria has been a disaster for the area’s cultural heritage. A displaced archaeologist describes...
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why...
The stories behind the pictures. By Diarmid Mogg Martin Fobes woke up to the sound of officers...
More than 200 years ago, a group of Philadelphian reformers had a utopian vision of how prisons...
A small and ornate book opens up to reveal one of the great masterpieces of Renaissance manuscript...
Despite the restrictions women faced, her art collections demonstrate important renaissance themes. Introduction In European history classes,...
She caused a furor when she coined “the banality of evil” to describe mindless acts of Nazi...
True or False? Franklin Delano Roosevelt claimed to be a conservative defender of the nation’s founding ideals....
How the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Venetian empires interacted with each other and how their competition over southeastern...
Ancient Rome and its empire had the concept of asylum at its heart. Its legacy provided inspiration...
Examining what prompted the backlash of black British people against the police. By Rowena Hillel and Vicky...
About 3000 resisters, many under the age of 25, were tried in German military courts in France...
Typical narratives about 1919’s anti-black collective violence, especially in school textbooks, often conclude abruptly. This summer marks...
They were condemned to death after a trial many called unjust. By James Jeffrey Houston marked an...
When the Beetle was first introduced, Americans had never seen anything like it. Among art car enthusiasts,...
The field of neuroaesthetics uses neuroscience to understand how art affects our brains, both when we’re making...
As the British Empire became an unaffordable burden, planning for India’s independence quickly ran into trouble. Introduction...
The partition of India led to more than a million deaths. A scholar argues how British royal,...