For thousands of years, inequality of income and wealth has been a defining feature of civilization. Only violent shocks have greatly narrowed the gap...

Practically all contemporaries at the end of the eighteenth century thought that the main cause of the French Revolution was something called "modern ...

Terrestrial life is under threat from three major insults: 1. Global warming. This can be interrupted and remedied by massive government investment in...

This seminar details how the eighteenth-century American educational system instilled in the founders of the United States a love and admiration for t...

The seminar challenges the myth that psychiatric drugs reverse underlying chemical imbalances or abnormal brain states. It traces the historical devel...

This lecture focuses on the medical and cultural history of transfusion before the twentieth century, from the ill-fated experiments of the late seven...

The President's Malaria Initiative, the Global Fund, and the Gates Foundation are currently funding an ambitious program of malaria reduction with a l...

This illustrated lecture explains the American Revolution in the Philadelphia region from a rarely considered perspective: how did the Revolution draw...

With poverty and violence increasing in Guatemala, tourism and foreigners increasingly dominating Yucatán, and militarized security and the forces of ...

Professor Anouar Majid walks us through the history of American-Muslim relations, outlining what unites and divides the two cultures, reflecting on th...