Early Christian writers valorized the desert life of ascetic monks, but the city also had something to offer would-be “fools for Christ”.

Archival material shows the hefty and careful investment the president and his team put into crafting his image for perpetuity.

Though they each arrive with an individual sense of humor and fashion, the fifteen Doctors reflect the political and social issues of their respective eras.

Thousands of Palestinian Arabs volunteered to fight against Germany and Italy during World War II, serving alongside Jewish volunteers from Mandate Palestine.

Well-researched stories from Undark, Works in Progress, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Once a powerful voice in the Black press, Coleman all but disappeared from the literary landscape of the American Midwest after her death in 1948.

Twentieth-century novels helped readers to learn about the practicalities of abortion as well as the social and moral questions around the procedure.

Europeans used standardized bars of iron mined in northern Europe to purchase humans during the slave era, transforming the coastal landscape of West Africa.

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée is an experiment in both lyric and epic modernism that uses form to invoke the tragedy of the wartime partition of Korea.

This vast Atlantic coast nation seems poised to become a tourist hot-spot, but uneven political and economic development may be standing in the way.