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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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The international system, that is.
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” &...
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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