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Each of us is endowed with an inheritance--a set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape eve
I spoke with Jay Rovner about his book In Every Generation: Studies in the Evolution and Formation o
The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a violent schism. As th
In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States an
Introduction to Global Military History:: 1775 to the Present Day (Routledge, 2018) provides a lucid
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirm
During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were
Despite serving as the 8th president of the United States, Martin Van Buren gets little consideratio
I spoke with an accomplished attorney and innovative law professor Rodger Citron of the Touro Law Sc
In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay
On November 3, 1979, as activist Nelson Johnson assembled people for a march adjacent to Morningside
The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a
A note about content:This episode involves discussion of suicide, specifically in the contexts of sl
North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate them
Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal e
From evading the KGB and disassembling a downed American plane to narrowly escaping a life sentence
When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch?
In Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past (Cornell University Press, 20
In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their belov
In Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank (W. W. Norton, 2024), Justene Hil
