In new book, UChicago’s Ada Palmer explores popular misunderstandings of the Renaissance and historical myths used for ...

Here's Thomas Cromwell at New York's Frick Collection, trapped in canvas by the Tudor court painter Hans Holbein: thick ...

Would upgrading the scope of the Hadiths bring back the Golden Age of Islam? This question arises because many modern ...

When medieval scholars sought to understand the nature of angels, they unwittingly laid the foundations of modern physics ...

Explore the development of sociology as a scientific field. Learn how empirical research, data analysis, and technological ...

Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...

Way before Man stepped on the moon and gazed afar at our planet, Muslim scholars knew that the Earth was round. While many ...

One powerlifter academic may have found a way to build lifelong, full-body strength and stability in a very old and rare source.

Also a scholar of David Hume, Professor Besser has broader interests in the history of ethics, and the early modern period of philosophy ... We’ll read philosophical works by Aristotle, J.S. Mill, ...

Welcome to the Jefferson Scholars Program! Our program is just a few years old ... rare even or especially in modern day America, with all of our incredible busy-ness and networking and multi-tasking ...