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On August 23, 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian-born anarchists, were electrocuted at Charlestown State Prison in Massachusetts. The same day, an international wave of mass demonstrations protested their death. Sacco and Vanzetti had

Ethics may strike you as the art of arguing whether to save a puppy or a philosopher from a burning building (spoiler: not even philosophers are sure what the right answer is here).

South Africa had a small nuclear arsenal during the Cold War, but relinquished it after the end of Apartheid.

From 1566 to 1648, the United Provinces of the Netherlands fought a brutal war of independence against the Spanish Empire.

A chance discovery at Lomekewi in Kenya pushed the origins of stone tool making back to 3.3 million years ago. Who made these ancient stone tools?

An outsider in the English royal court, Catherine of Braganza was an unenviable figure who left the legacy of tea-drinking in England.

Dispensationalism is a framework of biblical interpretation prevalent in evangelical circles that influences theology, particularly eschatology and ecclesiology.

Pope Formosus accomplished much during his papacy, but he is best known for having his corpse exhumed and put on trial at the Cadaver Synod.

The Crusades are a key example of religious conflict in world history. But what was their lasting impact?

When reading a book, one expects to find the protagonist present… Why does God appear absent from the Book of Esther in the Bible?