Although magic and witchcraft had existed since antiquity, early modern Europe underwent a growth in anxiety about...
History
How monks, friars and monastic sites became associated with magic in popular tradition, resulting in a lasting...
The devil, once a part of the sacred truth, could now be seen as a fragment of...
Demons and artists, it seems, pull from the same bag of tricks. They take ordinary matter and...
An analysis forces us to ask what we mean by political agency. By Laura Spinney Eleanor of...
Although Ptolemy III and Berenice II were cousins, they proclaimed themselves siblings as children of Ptolemy II...
The origins of Iraqi cuisine and continued popularity. Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning “between two rivers”) was...
The conquered areas of Elam, Media, Lydia, Babylonia, Egypt, and several eastern Iranian tribes were more or...
By the late Bronze Age, the Hurrians had been assimilated into surrounding cultures in the Near East....
Discussing the importance of these civilizations, and of how we can better assess and understand their legacy...
As mid-century Americans moved to cities, Cara’s film helped to idealize isolated white communities. It’s a Wonderful...
It’s a Wonderful Life prescribed community and empathy as the remedy to a callous economic system. From...
How does Upton Sinclair’s representation of this community in The Jungle compare to the accounts of sociologists...
What were working conditions like in Chicago during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What efforts...
If you were lucky enough to exist in the wealthiest sets of society… The “Gilded Age,” a...
Let’s adventure back to Colonial America—a time of exploration, revolution, taverns and….fast food? Yes, that’s right, fast...
April 1865 marked the beginning of a new battle for American abolitionists. On the same morning that...
“The first day I devoted to bidding a sad, though silent farewell to my people; for I...
The latitude line passing between the North and the South has separated generations of families. The Korean...
The ancients constructed the pagodas complying with design principles based on the arithmetic and geometric proportional systems....
Because of its geography and location, Cilicia was among the most important regions of the classical world....
Galatia was situated in eastern Phrygia, a region now within modern-day Turkey. By Jeffrey KingHistorian Introduction Galatia...
The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to...
While the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing is an opportunity to celebrate a remarkable technological...
Two hundred years after New England’s first great hurricane, we ask very different questions about the nature...
About 19,000 years ago in southwestern France at a site called Saint-Germain-La-Rivière, an adult woman dies and...
Poet-politician Joel Barlow personified an ideology borne of religious antipathy and economic rivalry. No sooner had the...
What it was like at the main gateway to the U.S. in the early 20th century. Immigrants...
Discussing the role of animals in transport, logistics, cavalry and communications in the First World War. Introduction...
Examining the U.S. 82nd Infantry Division and the bloodiest battle in American history. Originally published by Learn...