A Winelike Sea

How to play mumble-the-peg, mumchance, and hurling to the country

The Artistic Partnership of Lady Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley

Family Matters: Everyday Life in the Neo-Assyrian Empire

The audiences and authors of midwifery manuals

“Advice to Bride and Groom” by Plutarch (C. 100 CE)

A More Delicious Region: Following Alexis de Tocqueville to Italy

The Prospective Student’s Guide to Medieval Universities

Double Vision: A snapshot of several gazes

May He Sweat Copiously: A doctor must practice

Waiting for Brando: A disastrous 1961 film production of the Iliad

Flesh and Page: The laborious process of making parchment

Mirror Fever: The history of mirror halls in France and China

A Wiser Sympathy: Theorizing plant intelligence in the nineteenth century

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Dictating the Desert: Plants and settlers in a new mythology of Arizona

The First Ordinary Woman in English Literature

The Gaucho Western

A War of Endless Controversy: Governing from History

Hiding in Plain Sight

Tattoos and clothing in sixteenth-century Roanoke

It Belongs in a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner builds a place to house her art

A Jorge Luis Borges Reading List

A Collection of Human Errors: Assessing the Distant Past

A Fresh Twist to a Knot: A Year with Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin

Out It Goes: The Difficulty of Being John Constable

The House of His Desires: The life and legacy of al-Hallaj

A medieval account of Egyptian burial practices and tomb robbers

The Malice of Time: Neglect history at your peril

The Calamities of Others: An ancient historian aims for the big picture

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