The life of St. Josephine Bakhita, who endured enslavement as a child in Sudan before becoming a Canossian religious sister, ...
To live in a Western country is to live in a society still utterly saturated by Christian concepts and assumptions.” — Tom ...
Chemical records preserved in Pompeii’s public baths show how polluted well water shaped Roman bathing before aqueducts arrived.
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What was really going on in these woods for 200+ years

Deep in the woods of west-central Georgia, we explore a landscape that looks untouched—but tells a very different story. Here we find rock mounds believed to be Native American, massive terraced ...
Jetavanaramaya, a colossal fourth-century Sri Lankan stupa, was once among the world’s largest structures — a vast and ...
Historian Philip Decker, mathematician Victor Geadah, computer scientist Sayash Kapoor, and literary scholar Eliana Rozinov are this year’s Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellows.
Digital disruption and the climate crisis are often framed as economic or social challenges. But they force crucial moral questions. Who will be held accountable for the human cost? What will it take ...
For centuries, the windows of the most luxurious villas of Pompeii, the baths of Emperor Caligula, and the greenhouses where ...
If King Trump has his way, Black History Month will be diluted into some form of ‘Blank His-story.’  Not only is the Trumpster at the vanguard of a sustained movement […] ...
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America has a history of ethnic purity fearmongerers, whether it was sentiment against the Irish, Italians, Catholics, ...
At its height, slavery was the backbone of the Roman economy. Millions were enslaved—working fields, mines, households, and even fighting as gladiators. Yet slavery did not vanish overnight with the ...