Beckwith makes the case that this was the largest empire the world had seen up to that point; even if you disagree it's an interesting read about a period many of us know little about. Read expert recommendations Buy now Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women ...
A doll is a doll , but Barbie illustrates how, over the last five decades, women have become a standard for judging what freedom really means How women are treated in different countries tells you a lot about the politics and culture of where they live. The doll that every little girl ...
The trial of Galileo by the Roman Inquisition was one of the most public confrontations between the new science emerging in the 17th century and the Catholic Church but, nearly 400 years later, there's still a lot of scope to argue what it was about. Here historian of sciencePaula Findlen...
Radicals Chasing Utopia, by Jamie Bartlett (3/5): Jamie Bartlett wanders from fringe to fringe, rubbing shoulders with everyone from transhumanist biohackers to right-wing anti-Islam activists. It was interesting enough, and I learned something new with just about every group he embedded himself ...
I am writing a longer and more reflective piece, but in the meantime here are five quick points about the riots in London and elsewhere: 1 This is not a rerun of the inner city riots that shook Britain in the late seventies and the eighties. Those riots were a direct challenge to oppre...
My background is eclectic, but I’ve always had a historical curiosity about things and traditions. Weird and interesting facts stick to my head like a bunch of sticky notes. Before my hands went bad from chemo, I did all kinds of arts and crafts, one was quilting. The classic quilts ...
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A doll is a doll , but Barbie illustrates how, over the last five decades, women have become a standard for judging what freedom really means How women are treated in different countries tells you a lot about the politics and culture of where they live. The doll that every little girl ...
Five Percent Nation, American revisionist movement, led by Clarence 13X, which split from the Nation of Islam in 1963. The movement rejected being called a religion, preferring instead to be known as a culture and way of life. Its teachings are referred
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