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Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture, and the oth…

For thirty years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of th…

The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy li…

The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, …

The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination—mummies and pyramids, curses, and …

How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge t…

The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. Newly discovered fossil evidence is adding ever m…

Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccol? M…

Socrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy; it is no exaggeration to say that had i…

Born in 1926 in France, Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Ove…

The European Union (EU) stands out as a fascinatingly unique political organization. On the one hand…

Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing t…

Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come …

What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative?The word "capitalism"…

Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the …

Since their discovery in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have become an icon in popular culture that tran…

The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide, and is ranked as the world's …

The monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. J…

The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wal…

Nuclear weapons have not been used in anger since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshim…

Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, The Iliad and The Odyssey, are widely considered t…

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spani…

From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late t…