Does human life have any meaning? Does the question even make sense today?

John Dryden is often regarded as one of the most conservative writers in later seventeenth-century England, a time-serving “trimmer” who abandoned his early commitments to the English Republic to become the poet laureate and historiographer royal of Charles II’s new regime...

Nolan also challenges the hoary concept of the military "genius," even of the Great Captains--from Alexander to Frederick and Napoleon--mapping instead the decent into total war...

Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the key policy debates during this period...

McGowen identifies a previously overlooked mechanism by which speech can be harm...

One of the first and most famous of Christian martyrs was Perpetua, who died in Carthage in the early 3rd century CE.

Kramer outlines the way that a right to personality, combined with an accommodation-focused inquiry, could update and refresh our approach to civil rights...

Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’...

Beiner argues for the complexities and ambiguities of communal recollection by focusing on the contested memories of one of the shortest and certainly the bloodiest of politically driven Irish insurrections...

A free black woman from Connecticut, Jane Manning James positioned herself at the center of LDS history with uncanny precision...

Moodie examines the history of the Kalighat temple of Kolkata...

Kingston interrogates the idea of citizenship itself, what it means, how it works, how it is applied and understood, and where there are clear gaps in that application...

Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particular type of Roman household space: the domestic garden...

Abraham Singer essentially marries together two disciplinary schools of thought and approaches to understand and consider the corporate firm...

In the mid-19th century, photographs became key tools in debates surrounding slavery...

The US government is laboring under an enormous debt burden, one that will impact the living standards of future generations of Americans by limiting investment in people and infrastructure...

What does a typical American Catholic parish look like?

Though she died in 1847 at a young age, Marie Duplessis inspired one of the greatest operas ever composed...

In recent years, the concept of a ‘Cold War’ has been revived to describe the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran...

Kaul upturns many prevalent views about the cultural history of Kashmir...

Why do we put other animals in the various categories we do, and treat them in the various good and bad ways that we do?

Magnusdottir explores depictions of America in post-war Soviet propaganda. While the 1945 “meeting on the Elbe” marked a high point in United States/Soviet friendship, official relations deteriorated quickly thereafter...

Epistemologists working traditional modes have sought to discover the necessary and sufficient conditions under which one has knowledge...