In view of March being Women’s History Month and celebrating International Women’s Day, it is only right that we take a moment to acknowledge and spotlight the incredible women-led initiatives and gender equality focused organizations within San Francisco. …
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Case Western Reserve University During her victory speech, Kamala Harris, the first woman to be elected vice president of the United States, paid tribute to women activists not only in…
Cahokian culture spread across eastern North America 1,000 years ago in an early example of diaspora
Jayur Mehta, Florida State University An expansive city flourished almost a thousand years ago in the bottomlands of the Mississippi River across the water from where St. Louis, Missouri stands today. It…
Ibaraki, a Japanese prefecture regularly recognized each year as “the least attractive” place to visit in the country, has become a little more popular with local travelers in 2020. After ranking last…
On October 7, Salvadoran Tourism Minister Morena Valdez launched the new tourism logo “El Salvador” inspired by the work and art of Fernando Llort. The newly designed rebrand is intended to promote tourist destinations alongside…
Author: Sangita SwechchaSource: Global Voices Dashain, also known as Vijaya Dashami, is one of the largest Hindu festivals celebrated in Nepal. It is a time when Kathmandu and other densely populated cities…
On one page [of George Lippard’s novel Ladye Annabel] you read a most graphic and minute description of breaking a criminal on a wheel, told by the executioner, with the same sort of…
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University Only 100 individuals had been listening, however the first broadcast from a licensed radio station occurred at 8 p.m. on Nov. 2, 1920. It was Pittsburgh’s KDKA, and…
Thomas Martin, College of the Holy Cross In ancient Athens, solely the very wealthiest individuals paid direct taxes, and these went to fund the city-state’s most vital nationwide bills – the navy…
In 1969, when the design guru, futurist and consummate bullshit artist Buckminster Fuller’s new ebook concerning the future prospects for humanity got here out, he’d referred to as it Utopia or Oblivion. It appeared…
Lynn Sebastian Purcell, State University of New York College at Cortland Growing up in the United States, I keep in mind on Halloween my mom used to say, “Honey, this is not…