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The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

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Yet Trimalchio was mistaken. He had not reckoned with Kim Bowes, professor of ancient history and archaeology at the ...

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In the aftermath of President Trump’s deadly military attack on Venezuela and his abduction and rendition of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his ...

The city of Pompeii was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ...

Three years ago in a Hong Kong courtroom, 90-year-old cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun leaned heavily on his cane. Wearing his ...

Medieval People Thought the Earth Was Flat Historians of science David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers point out that there was ...