Philadelphia’s first, charity-run public bathhouse was established in 1898 by the Public
Baths Association of Philadelphia. By the turn of the century, bathing had become inexorably linked
to a series of social beliefs, ...
This article aims to investigate the changing political alignment of the Chilean Catholic
Church following the fall of the dictatorship in the early 1990’s. The author brings together a
primary source collection of of ...
This paper analyzes the history of cybercrime rhetoric through the 1989 hacking of the earliest
internet network, ARPANET. The event is useful for understanding how contagion rhetoric of the
computer science professionals ...
On the Tuesday morning of August 1st, 1944, two and half million Philadelphians found
themselves without a ride. When the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin published pictures of
Thomas Allen(Image a) and James Stewart(Image ...
In 1774, living in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, Antoine bought his
freedom from the Gentil de Paroy, only to be arrested by his former master two years
later and accused of using poison. With his mother, Lisette, ...
This thesis sets out with the aim of making an intervention in the study of gender and
sexuality in the eighteenth century by centering shame in the construction of polite masculinity
and sodomy in eighteenth-century ...
Neoplatonist philosopher Iamblichus (ca. 242–ca. 325) believed that the human soul contains a component, called the One of the soul, that links human beings back to the highest level of divinity. Although Iamblichus holds ...
In the United States there has been a steady decrease in the number of people who live on small farms. This is a problem because something is being lost as we continuously move away from small farms. It is hard to convey ...
This thesis addresses the topic of women’s funerary stelai from Classical Attica which praise the virtue of the deceased. In contrast to earlier scholars, I argue for a holistic approach when analyzing these monuments, ...
The subject of this paper is an unfinished neo-Latin epic called the Grameid, written in Scotland in 1691 by a man named James Philp, which celebrates the deeds of its hero, the Scottish nobleman John Graham of Claverhouse, ...
This thesis explores the Stoic concepts of pain, which calls attention to the idea that pain should be silenced and unexpressed. I put forth an argument that pain is most effectively comprehended through visual aids such ...
The term Italia restituta refers to Trajan’s domestic political program, aimed at bolstering infrastructure and population on the Italian peninsula. I first discuss Trajan’s imperial legacy, then his political philosophy. ...
A group of non-combatants within the Roman army known as the lixae have long been assumed to play a commercial role similar to the sutlers of later armies, but this interpretation is far from certain and many details of ...
By studying the Greco-Roman worlds and their literature in relation to other cultures, we can develop a more complex and holistic understanding of the ways in which ancient civilizations developed and interacted. Although ...