Kuhn’s contribution to the philosophy of science grows from his attempt to do history of science from a...
History
His vision transformed a ruin into a thriving cultural center. Introduction The agora of Athens developed from the 6th century BCE...
Romans financed their expansion and government operations using the resources taken from vanquished territories. By Kurt CobbResource...
Infrastructure before 1700 consisted mainly of roads and canals. This began to change very rapidly. Introduction Infrastructure before...
Social media is largely though not exclusively responsible for undermining belief in truth and objectivity. Aaron J....
Anti-Semitism and revisionism were cornerstones of the Horthy regime from 1919 onwards. Introduction The official narrative that...
White masters could treat slaves as just another possession to be used and then disposed of when...
The ‘Two Swords’ – the emperor and the pope – stayed at each other’s throats over a...
Wealthy villeins increased in number, and it could come as a nasty shock when some rival or...
The ancient and medieval village represented a new stage of the world’s oldest civilized society. By Frances...
German-born Emmy Noether continues to challenge and inspire mathematicians with her story and mathematical legacy. Introduction When Albert...
Though their reproductive choices were still unacceptably limited, pre-modern Christian women did have some options. Introduction The...
They did not run haphazardly into the woods, but established creative and subversive escape strategies. Historians once...
For nearly 2,000 years, the mother of Jesus has been viewed as an exemplar by different Christian...
In China, many Buddhists hope for birth in a buddha-land so they can complete their path under...
The CCP has little to celebrate in terms of what it has done for China. Its chief...
It was not until the Goryeo period that royal patronage focused on the production of a specific...
Combining archaeological evidence, aerial scans and machine learning algorithms, researchers modeled how this medieval city grew over...
Most Americans do not realize that even in the supposedly liberal North, black students were excluded from...
Exploring Graeco-Roman reading culture through one of its best-preserved and most lavishly-illustrated artefacts. This article, Reading Like...
Worship of Thoth began in Lower Egypt most likely in the Pre-Dynastic Period (c. 6000-3150 BCE). Introduction...
This fuels rampant violence in Mexico, contributing to the country’s tens of thousands of homicides every year....
For over a century, the Mexican authorities have sought to extract money from the drug trade by...
For 300 years, Mexico was a Spanish colony and the center of a huge administrative area called...
The post-Diaz Mexican state sponsored the creation of a mural movement in an effort to express and...
Peruvian Carlos Baca Flor excelled in the study of the nude model and Colombian artist Francisco A....
“Simultaneously representing, complicating, and furthering the discourse on the Appalachian region and its cultures.” By Dr. Katherine...
A scholar of the Ottoman Empire discusses a history of Palestinians’ claims to land being ignored. By...
Being in debt was once an artful promenade — the process of eluding creditors through disguise and...
The first recorded use of a Jolly Roger ‘black flag’ is on the ship of Emmanuel Wynne,...