Is “Vedic” fire sacrifice at odds with “Hindu” image worship?

There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...

Keyser explores the ways that modern fiction writers responded to the theories and anxieties about race in the early twentieth century through related anxieties about modern industrial food...

Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade...

How does perception result in thoughts about items in the world (such as dogs or flowers) and in conscious states of many kinds (such as experiences of seeing red)?

Carter reveals that object lessons were a classroom exercise, in wide use during the nineteenth century...

More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life...

Johnson examines the lives and work of four well-known women-evangelical marriage advice author Marabel Morgan, singer and anti-gay-rights activist Anita Bryant, author and political lobbyist Beverly LaHaye, and televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker...

Earlier histories of the Cold War haven’t exactly been charitable toward the peace activists and pacifists who led peace initiatives...

Walton explores how members of three contemporary Muslim groups, the Nur community, the Gülen movement, and Alevis, articulate religiosity within the Turkish public sphere...

What can we learn from the financial crisis that brought Hitler to power?

They introduce the concept of ‘dueling fact perceptions’ based on years of research, and for our interview, Morgan Marietta explains how they arrived at such conclusions and their implications for our country’s future...

Lippert explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush...

Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...

Fahrenthold sheds a timely light on Syrian and Lebanese immigrants who established vibrant diaspora communities in the Americas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

Rather than primarily trace historical events while touching on cultural matters as many of these books do, Bomberger follows the events in jazz and classical music during this crucial year while framing them within America’s entry into World War One....

The two authors, both masters in the field, take on the monumental task of offering a civil-military synthesis of the war against Japan that covers both the home front and the campaigns in exacting detail...

In order to explain thought in natural physical systems, mainstream cognitive science posits representations, or internal states that carry information about the world and that are used by the system to guide its behavior...

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

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...

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...

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...