Locke’s method built on a long tradition of commonplace note taking, most famously John Milton’s from the...
History
People have used drum telegraphy to communicate with each other from far away for centuries. Developed and...
As a method of communication, it is likely as old as the ancient Persians, from whom the...
How, if at all, did religious communities change their inherited traditions in the midst of new surroundings?...
Three hundred years is a long time to suffer a bad reputation. The sheer longevity of the...
Little is known about their lifestyle due to the numerous conflicts and combinations of cultures that occurred...
It was built in five constructional stages spanning a period from around 3000 to 1500 BCE. Stonehenge...
In 63 B.C.E. Pompey was invited to settle a dispute between two Maccabeans. Thus came the Romans....
A place for the performance of rituals of congregation. Abstract The discovery of the early bronze age...
The close of the 19th century also witnessed dramatic discoveries in the new science of bacteriology that...
Public outcry against these ghoulish deeds was great. This article, The History of Burke and Hare and...
A comparison of the concept of the “general will” in revolutionary France. Introduction The concept of the...
Reexamining Charlemagne through evidence from his own time, as a ruler of a recognizably European empire and...
Other Mesoamerican cultures also engaged in human sacrifice and built tzompantlis, but the Mexica brought it to...
Examining nine different civilizations that practiced ritual human sacrifice. Originally published by ESRI, republished with embed permission...
The myth of the Northwest Passage is part of the northern romance of the conflict between men...
This was intended to be “read” by intarsia workers (artists who inlay sections of wood to decorate...
The costumes were meant to combat the contagious miasma. This article, Plague Doctor Costumes, was originally published...
This article, London’s Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics during the Great Plague (1665), was...
In the 1950s, ‘coming out’ meant acknowledging sexual orientation. Today, the term is used by a broad...
In primary texts, figures are addressed by medieval authors using both male and female pronouns interchangeably and...
Even after her final detention and death, newspapers and popular culture perpetuated the misconception that Mallon infected...
Leprosy and compulsory segregation were connected through the ‘colonial gaze’. Abstract This article is looking at colonial...
The period between 1819 and the 1860s had the national government and the states in a push...
As the Union grew during the two centuries after the founding, state constitutions increasingly included enumerations of...
What if we understand the play as a story about the disabled body as it was configured...
Antony was popular as a tribune and sought vengeance for Caesar before joining Cleopatra and falling out...
During Queen Victoria’s reign Britain was the most powerful trading nation in the world. Introduction Victorian advances...
His death prompted a quite extraordinary explosion of mourning around the world. Introduction Abraham Lincoln yearned to...
Jefferson, ever sanguine, was merely trying to make the best of a wretched scenario. A yellow-fever epidemic...