Common Sense helped them cross it. Reading it now, Paine’s words are a kind of portal back to the Revolutionary moment.

A musket ball shattered Byfield ’s left forearm in 1814, nine days after the bloody nighttime fight at Lundy’s Lane, a ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, ...

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Once engineered as a symbol of women’s liberation, the cigarette has travelled a long road from corporate manipulation to ...

A spate of 2025 shows points to wider institutional interest not only in art that engages mystical or occult frameworks but ...

In his book “Human History on Drugs,” Kelly provides an “utterly scandalous but entirely truthful look at history under the ...

The ideological spectrum was born in France about 237 years ago.

For months, the same strange object has been turning up again and again on a beach in southern Wales: black leather boots, ...

Unearthing the fascinating history of gambling A journey through time ...

This season’s offerings investigate America’s religious origins, explore Jewish identity, and meditate on the power of myths ...

Everyone knows that. But treating those limits as moral collapse is an evasion, allowing critics to keep the moral ...