Pointy shoes have been all the rage across cultures for centuries, and their role as status symbols continue today.
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There was a reason Southern businessmen and thinkers were inspired by ancient Egypt: To them, it served as proof that all great civilizations were hierarchal societies sustained by enslaved labor.
80 years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of Orwell’s predictions have come true.
A heist has taken place at the Louvre. It’s just the latest in a long line of cunning art heists.
The Erie Canal solidified New York’s reputation as the Empire State, but it also opened up an expressway for invasive species to reach the Great Lakes.
In his lyrics, the folksinger and herald of US postwar social struggles described his era. In some ways, it resembles our own.
Medieval people believed that witches would transform into hedgehogs to steal milk.
Women in early modern Wales typically dressed in long skirts, large woollen shawls, and tall, black hats. Could they have inspired stereotypes of the witch?
Early nomadic humans living in Europe briefly halted to profit from an unexpected windfall, leaving some important clues about their behaviour.
At his peak in the early 1890s, Peter Jackson was easily the most famous living Australian in the world. But he was more than boxer.
AI is showing some of the hallmarks of another technology’s rapid rise and fall back in the 1920s. These are the lessons we could learn.
Commuters have complained about SEPTA’s poor conditions and unstable funding for nearly a century.
It can take years to collect evidence that shows effective uses of new technologies in schools. Unfortunately, early guesses sometimes go seriously wrong.
Sithole was just one of tens of thousands of individuals who died during Zimbabwe’s independence struggle.
Marie Curie’s daughter Irene continued her family’s Nobel legacy by discovering artificial radioactivity.
From Babe Ruth’s barnstorming tours to Shohei Ohtani’s star power, baseball’s century-long ties to Japan have grown into one of Major League Baseball’s most reliable global growth strategies.
The Presbyterian church closely regulated the intimate lives of its members through a system of church court discipline.
The legacy of the Dixson family reveals a complicated history of interconnected global capital and racialised exploitation.
This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know Proto-Indo-European must have existed?
The series may not be accurate in detail, but it is valuable in spirit – and hilariously opens a window onto a forgotten corner of European history.
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Professor of History, Australian Catholic University
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Research Associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato
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IE School of Humanities, IE University; California State University San Marcos
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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