Findings suggest that in times of collective threat, divisions within a society tend to fade as people come together to face a common enemy.
The Buddha’s birth mother and foster mother played key roles in his life story and continue to inspire Buddhists today.
The COVID pandemic has sparked new research into how disease may have affected ancient civilizations, and the clues this offers about a change in the way humans designed their villages and cities 8,000 years ago.
More so than most restaurants, managers at restaurants like Hooters seek to strictly regulate how their employees look and act.
Changing a place name can fundamentally shift how people view, relate to or feel that they belong within that place.
Standardizing the types of metadata managers record and the ways they store it could make the items more accessible and usable.
The Bible often shares stories of love and friendship.
Buddhists throughout the world celebrate Bodhi Day, but they do not all celebrate Siddhartha’s enlightenment on the same day.
The goals of the course are to teach students the importance of reading critically and share the importance of historical and social context.
The success of the effort to restore the name Kuwohi may help other communities in their ongoing place renaming efforts.
Archaeologists often explain what we call urban collapse in terms of climate change, overpopulation, social pressures or some combination of these. But scientists have added a new hypothesis to the mix: disease.
The goal of this course is to help students understand that societies are more than groups of people. Societies are alive and try to survive on their own terms and are sometimes at odds with the interests of the people who live in them.