An epidemic of anxiety. A glut of information. A plague of “morbid self-introspection.” The complaints of Victorian anti-modernists and medievalists...

This summer, I worked abroad with an Italian archaeological team, eating lunches and dinners together, even living in the same...

“What a sudden, unexpected death.” “I can’t imagine something like that happening where we live.” “His kids were standing right...

Christmas and Camelot—not the most natural pairing in the modern mind. Through much of British history, however, King Arthur’s feasts,...

In the mid 1800’s, a deluge of new words struck the American vocabulary, infusing it with the rough-and-tumble sound of...

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Over the summer, I work as a face painter. A fun perk of the job is that I’m always up...

I recently attended a lecture on the myth of Hercules, which explained how the myth was indicative of Ancient Grecian...

In 1817, the English poet Lord Byron wrote home to his friend Thomas Moore that Southern Europe was “pestilential with...

In 1980, famed astronomer Carl Sagan released ‘Cosmos,’ a book designed to guide the reader through the entwined history of...