Rhetoric, Law and the Formation of Asian American as a Racial Identity

During the months of the liberation of France, British politicians and diplomats established that it was their duty to help restore the image of France in Britain because France was their main partner for engaging in discussion about the creation of a western bloc...

It was an “infernal machine” comprised of a clock, a pistol trigger mechanism, moving cogs and bars of a soft, chemical-smelling material...

What is the value of silver and gold in the middle of the ocean?

The queer coding in magazines like Bachelor wasn’t just meant to wink at queer readers...

Scratched on the wall of a mine is the very first attempt at something we use every day: the alphabet...

A peculiar idiosyncrasy marked the appearance of the word ‘utopia’ in Chinese...

Among Juwayeyi’s most important contributions is the argument that the Maravi state predated the expansion of Indian Ocean trade into the region...

The era’s greatest promoter of astronomy was Jai Singh II, the 18th-century raja of Jaipur...

I had been watching the growth of open source software and I had this concept of a free encyclopedia...

In 1913, a group of seven Americans headed north from New York City. Their mission was to find and explore Crocker Land, an unexplored island or perhaps small continent...

The Steppe sky remains...

Geographically vulnerable as most harbors are, Chrysopolis was better suited to commerce than war. This is why nothing remains of its Roman or Byzantine origins...

The survival of remains of one of the tiltyard towers was known, but the radar survey has shown up tantalizing glimpses of additional structures...

She dwarfed all other remaining cities of the Roman Empire as well as former western Roman imperial and cross-frontier territories, and all but a few eastern cities...

The post-1968 era inaugurated the unraveling of Japanese anthropology’s transwar consensus about its goals to produce objective, field-based research that uncovered universal laws of social development and diffusion...

Even the Christians who loved to eat pigs vilified them as greedy, dirty, destructive animals. This reputation was woven into the scriptures that early medieval readers studied and quoted and wove into their own stories and texts...

When one thinks about the Merovingians—and, really, who doesn’t?—one seldom thinks of the Mediterranean. There is good reason for that...

English textile workers focused on the production of cheap worsteds, a coarse light woollen cloth, which required very little or no fulling...

The earliest form of ice cream seems to have been produced a little before Della Porta started freezing wine...

The very terminology—“black citizen”—was, of course, an oxymoron upon the birth of this very nation...