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From OUP: Migration has played a vital role in shaping human history and continues to have profound effects on the world today. Historically, the movement of people across regions has
Continue readingAn introduction to Migration in the Ancient World [Interactive Map]
In Greek mythology, he resided on Mount Olympus with his father, Zeus. Apollo’s mother, Leto, was another old Greek God – like Zeus, she was the daughter of Titans. … Continue readingHistory Defined: Who is The Greek God Apollo?
David Feldman in The Ideas Letter: Over the last 100 years, the struggle against antisemitism and the struggle against racism have at times appeared inextricably connected, firmly allied in a
The author of the bestselling Sapiens offers a penetrating critique of the insidious dangers of machine learning and its capacity to manipulate the truth. … Continue readingReview of “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI” by Yuval Noah Harari
by Daniel H. Magilow at The Conversation: (A)ccusations – that fake-looking images are real, that real-looking ones are fake – have been a common feature in politics, particularly among extremists,
From The Free Press: The writer Jonathan Rosen looks back at a portent of the future. … Continue readingWhat September 11 Revealed
From Aeon Magazine: This instalment from the British Museum video series Curator’s Corner focuses on a small clay tablet that, at first glance, seems somewhat unremarkable but is, in fact,
Historian Chen Jian has published a monumental biography of Zhou Enlai that makes him the pre-eminent scholar of the contemporary Chinese diaspora. … Continue readingZhou Enlai: Made By the Revolution
From the Daily Stoic: Of course, it seems quite old to us. Seneca lived 20 centuries ago. Cato was born in the year 95 BC. As Marcus Aurelius writes in
Niall Ferguson at The Free Press: According to Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper is “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.” I had never heard of Cooper
Habib Khan, Quetta: The news that a clock manufactured by John Jacob –more than 150 years ago, is still running and keeping accurate time was truly stunning to me. In