In today's world, we barely think about picking up a fork. It is part of a standard cutlery set, as essential as the plate ...

The British historian and New Left Review editor Perry Anderson set out to trace the history of European class societies from antiquity to the present. Anderson’s uncompleted project is a landmark in ...

How many people can say “my grandparent did this or changed that?” A handful actually can, and while some wear that fact like ...

The theory was that Anatolia, the region in which Ayvalık is situated, and Europe were linked during the last Ice Age, ...

Erika George, the associate dean for equity, justice and engagement at the Boston University School of Law and a professor of international law, delivered the annual John P. Morris Memorial Lecture at ...

Karen Petrone is a history professor at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of a few books focusing on Russian and ...

On Thursday, Sept. 18th at WT in Canyon, join the Center for the Study of the American West for the Garry L. Nall Lecture in Western Studies, featuring Dr. Char Miller. He'll present his lecture "Fire ...

Lucerne McCullough's 1938 public works mural of the Black River Canal is great representation of the lateral canals found within the Erie Canal's Middle Division. Along New York State's artificial ...

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The Alfred Ceramic Art Museum will host the 20th Perkins Lecture of Ceramic History Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 4:30 p.m. in Nevins Theater. This year’s speaker is art historian Margaret Carney, director of ...

Real tennis was played indoors, usually in a court with high windows, a sloping roof and a spectators’ gallery. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In 1570, a Frenchman was arrested for smuggling ...

Pack a lunch and join the Hancock Historical Museum on Thursday, September 4, 2025, at noon for a Brown Bag Lecture presented by Tom Davis, retired detective sergeant of the Findlay Police Department ...