Although best known for his acclaimed works of fiction such as The Glass Palace and The Hungry Tide, among others, in 2019 Foreign Policy named Amitav Ghosh one of the most important global thinkers of the decade for his searing indictment of the inadequate response to

Though now often considered a monolith of whiteness, the material and visual culture of ancient Greece and Rome included representations of diverse peoples and groups, including people of African origin.

When the founders of the United States were considering what system of government they wanted to create following independence from Britain, they took inspiration from the classical models of democratic Athens and republican Rome.

In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by Washington’s small but growing bureaucracy.

Works of art have the power to prompt, provoke, and illuminate.

In her series titled Loss and Resurrection, lens-based artist and photographer Manjari Sharma documents her mother's on-going battle against (Frontotemporal) dementia. In this conversation, Sharma speaks with Dr.