Time, like place, is socially constructed rather than ‘natural’, and so one might expect ideas of time...
History
The 19th-century whale hunt was a brutal business, awash with blubber, blood, and the cruel destruction of...
The romantic, 20th-century interpretation of Turner’s unexhibited oil paintings has been that they represent his release from...
The history of how European Christians spread their message, using key texts from around the world. Introduction...
Since the 8th and 9th centuries, these early missions were called ‘Celtic Christianity’. Introduction The Hiberno-Scottish mission...
Tangible evidence about Christianity’s spread from Rome to Canterbury and from Ireland to the Court of Charlemagne....
It was initially a Jewish message and so the followers of Jesus took his teachings to the...
An L.A. tour to remember architect Frank Israel. By Maristella Casciato and Johnny Tran “If all roads...
The formal beginnings of establishing the Arch, its grounds, and museum actually date to 1935. Introduction It...
The was the election that defined the modern GOP. President Donald Trump’s brazen flirtation with white supremacy...
He started as a hero and ended as “the impersonation of the tyrannical slave power.” On April...
The Temple defined the authority of the new ideology of the rising Augustan empire. The Temple of...
This small temple is a rare surviving example from the Roman Republic. It is both innovative and...
Some historians point to Stilicho’s ambition and blame him in part for the fall of the Western...
Roman losses are described as being up to 80,000 troops as well as another 40,000 auxiliary troops...
Joseph Warren’s political activism began with his writings about the Stamp Act, and he began to be...
Anonymous satire by a 1709 political writer worked like today’s partisan clickbait. She was the “Ann Coulter”...
Winema Riddle was a Modoc woman whose life story illuminates Native American women’s roles in history. By...
The Puritans’ arrival at Plymouth would forever change the lives of the Natives who had lived in...
Broadcasters silenced Father Charles Coughlin in 1938, just as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook Trump’s incitements. Introduction In...
A successful violent coup perpetrated and fueled by white supremacist ideology spread happened in Wilmington, North Carolina,...
We are still living with the bitter consequences of his wife’s revisionist narrative today. George Pickett –...
Thomas Jefferson wrote that the westward expansion of slavery would lead to the “[death] knell of the...
Starting from the reader rather than the text allows a new picture of nineteenth-century reading to emerge....
Violence, corruption, and murder dominate our modern headlines, Little has changed since execution ballads in sixteenth-century Europe....
Examining the significance of their intellectual contributions by uncovering the webs of meaning in which their work...
Of the many groups under pressure and persecution in this period were Jews, lepers, and homosexuals. Western...
Sebastian passed into legend as a great Portuguese patriot and hero. Introduction Sebastianism (Portuguese: Sebastianismo) is a...
The King asleep in mountain until his return, in a foggy dawn, in Portugal’s greatest hour of...
Who were the players and what was this Controversy all about? Introduction The “Iconoclastic Controversy” over religious...