Turmoil in 19th Century Spain
The analysis begins judiciously with the war of 1793-95 and its aftermath...
Read MoreBird’s Delight
Almost everything we know about medieval culture is written on the skins of dead animals...
Read MoreHow did Barbara Tuchman alter history?
President John F. Kennedy read The Guns of August shortly before the Cuban Missile Crisis began...
Read MoreGENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS
Though the twenty-four-hour news cycle has done much to stoke our contemporary ideological divides, the roots of this phenomenon can be situated centuries ago...
Read MoreSoviets vs. Nazis
More than seven decades have passed since the end of World War II and what was once part of lived communal knowledge has gradually fallen away...
Read MoreDecorating Fragrant Evergreens
Celebrants added nuts, strings of popcorn or beads, oranges, lemons, candies and home-made trinkets. However, widely-read newspapers and ladies' magazines raised the standards for ornamentation...
Read MoreLeipzigzag
Nietzsche – who had studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig – once argued that the Germans were becoming overwhelmed with the sheer volume of antiquarian knowledge...
Read MoreClimate Caucasianism Against the Heavenly Way
Eco-ontologists in Japan had long regarded coal-mining activities in Japan by Westerners as an interruption of the human-heaven relationship...
Read MoreWine in Fascist Italy
Wine growers, merchants and industrialists worked feverishly to rehabilitate the beverage's downtrodden reputation...
Read MoreLakota Power
Lakota power grew from the nation’s cultural adaptability, its people’s willingness - indeed, eagerness - to embrace change, and from its leaders’ political flexibility...
Read MoreRedefining the Boundaries of Blackness and Germanness
Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement stands at the intersection of questions regarding Black German activism in the post-1970 era...
Read MoreFrederick and Falcons in Faenza
Falconry was, by then, a common pursuit. Having been introduced to Europe from Central Asia or the Near East, it had been practised at least since the ninth century...
Read MoreVergilius Vaticanus and the Puzzle of Ancient Book Culture
Texts of Greek and Roman literature do not usually come down to us in lavishly illustrated editions dating back to what we term classical antiquity...
Read MoreNew Unis of the 60s
The most remarkable feature of the mould-breaking expansion of higher education that took place across the world in the 1960s was the foundation of some 200 entirely new universities...
Read MoreVietnamese TV Post-’86
The extensive development of popular television is one of the most distinctive cultural achievements of the post-Reform era...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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