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Americans agree that their nation’s origins lie in the Revolution, but they have never agreed on wha
Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple questio
Dive into the world of animals with Whitney Barlow Robles in her captivating new book, Curious Speci
Why did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was usually an elitist pursuit in the
The Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In The Holy Alliance:
Today I talked to Geoffrey D. Claussen about Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought (Jewi
An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on fi
One of the great divides in American judicial scholarship is between legal scholars who take the jus
In The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), An
In 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empir
If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century At
The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of Franc
Why is that when a loved one dies, grief seems inescapable--and then diminishes? The brilliant Edinb
Political Scientist E.J. Fagan, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Ill
What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles D
What role does science play in shaping our laws? How do we distinguish between good science and bad
Political Theorist David Lay Williams has a new book that traces the problem of economic inequality
Many historical figures have their lives and works shrouded in myth, both in life and long after thei
In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso (University of Del
The legal theory of constitutional originalism has attracted increasing attention in recent years as
