Standing in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo ...

Roman baths were not only technically ingenious and architecturally impressive, they connected people socially from all walks ...

In 1850s America, escaped slaves and people that tried to help them were ruled criminals and the people that owned the slaves weren’t the ...

From soldier wages to political fortunes, Roman earnings reveal how war, wealth, and ambition shaped power in the ancient ...

New genealogical research traces the Pope’s ancestry back to the 1500s, revealing what Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates Jr ...

Faced with growing inequality and social strain, the plebeian council increasingly directed its energy toward social relief for ordinary citizens. Though no longer revolutionary, its institutional ...

Shahn was an American phenomenon, but a new retrospective suggests that we’ve come to prize his politics over his ...

Human rights, defined as the basic rights and freedoms inherent to all individuals, have evolved considerably in both scope and application in the modern era. Contemporary societies have increasingly ...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

June 24, 2025 – "All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche ...

Nearly 90 years later, many still believe Huey Long’s death wasn’t an assassination but an accidental killing covered up for ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...