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While Æthelstan’s grandfather, Alfred, had revived the practice of issuing law codes, Æthelstan was by far the most. ..

Early samurai were members of a professional warrior class who served under a daimyo; they fought with bow and arrow on. ..

The Ptolemies came too late for many histories of Greece and Egypt and too early for Rome. Alexandria, their capital, ...

That slavery persisted in Muslim societies well into the 20th century is undeniable. More questions need to be asked. ..

The story​ of the English printing press has no convenient beginning. It makes for inconsistent centennials; a quatercentenary celebration was held in 1877, two quincentenary exhibitions in 1975...

Circumstantial evidence suggests that Vigil. ..

In some ways, Amie Barrodale’s first novel, Trip, is a send-up of a culture obsessed with ‘healthmaxxing’, where. ..

Harrison’s life and career was part of the postwar flowering of the avant-garde, which reached its apotheosis in the. ..

The White House ignores the threat of far-right groups.

Despite promising peace, Israeli-Gulf cooperation paved the path to war with Iran.

British voters are expected to abandon the Labour Party for nonmainstream alternatives.

The Chinese leader isn’t willing to give anybody else power.

New research shows every $1 the U. S. Forest Service spent to minimize wildfire risk prevented nearly $4 in damages.

National Democrats in the DCCC picked Joe Baldacci in Maine's hotly contested House race just weeks before the primary. Locals are pissed.

Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world.

In his decades of writing about pop music, Jon Savage came to understand its liberatory power.

Recent fiction by Hong Kong writers explores life in a society traumatized by ever-tightening Chinese national security laws that suppress political discussion and artistic freedom.

Molly Crabapple’s history of the Bund recovers an egalitarian, secular, cosmopolitan vision of Jewish identity and political life that was lost in the horrors of the twentieth century.

An impulsive trip to America’s “idiot Disneyland” thrust John Gregory Dunne among characters who, like him, sought distraction from their private miseries.

In their poems and essays, Kathleen Jamie and Peter Davidson transcend Scottish sentimentalism and find new points of entry into their shared past.