Its dizzy heights may have passed, but the fad for adult coloring books is far from over....
History
A hot summer revealed a hidden history beneath the dried-out fields – but only when seen from...
Over the past two decades Australian archaeologists have been slowly uncovering the World Heritage-listed ancient theatre site at...
Animals have always been central to human culture, as cave paintings around the world attest. In more...
Books had the practical aim of helping children to learn to read, count, and understand the world...
Examining the role of animals in Thai manuscript art. Illustrations of real and mythical animals play an...
War animals have been with us for a very long time. There’s a good chance you’ve come...
Examining the death, and the life, of Florence Nightingale, the great nursing heroine of the Crimean War....
Staring at bloodied soldiers in a train station one fateful April day, Clara Barton rolled up her...
After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, central authority fell to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the Shogunate began....
Franklin advanced a scientific – not supernatural – understanding of astronomical events such as eclipses. His satirical...
About 85% of all matter in the universe consists of a mysterious, invisible, and as-of-yet unidentified substance...
The use of animals for their renewable products greatly increased human capabilities in prehistory. The use of...
Analyzing the role that the Safavid economy played within the rapidly developing global economic system. By Connor...
The empire established Shi’a Islam as Iran’s official religion and united its provinces under a single Iranian...
Seljuk art and architecture is a fusion of Persian, Islamic, and Central Asian (Turkic) elements. By Dr....
Kahina’s life is only known through later Arab historians writing on the Muslim conquest of Africa. Introduction...
The “Saltmen of Zanjan” were preserved by a very rare form of natural mummification which had occurred...
Death rituals help us to cope with loss and perhaps even feelings of guilt associated with disposing...
Lincoln deserves far more credit than he has received as an architect of American constitutional law. Introduction...
The founders were an essential political and cultural touchstone in the election of 1864. “Four score and...
Martin van Buren was a man for the people, and especially for the downtrodden. Martin van Buren...
He claimed that he embodied the people in the same way that Louis XIV believed that he...
Jeffersonian scholarship is not a fool’s errand, but it is extremely arduous. Merrill Peterson, the preeminent Jeffersonian scholar,...
Sentiment began to change in earnest in the wake of the decision to publicize the XYZ dispatches...
Analyzing classical religious influences on the work of Ehab Mamdouh. Abstract This paper focuses on the work...
Quaker worship services have always consisted of long periods of silent reflection. “The voices of the past...
Grillot de Givry’s discovery of this 18th-century manuscript from an alleged witch was serendipitous – twice over....
Founded during the conquests of Alexander the Great, the city developed and grew after his death. Ai...
The expansion of the Greco-Bactrians into present-day eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan from 180 BC established the Indo-Greek...