This essay aims to show how the influx of refugees from the Haitian Revolution into the United States was a factor in changing US policies as they related to the practice of human bondage.
In this paper, I compare the mosaic in Dougga that depicts the section in The Odyssey decribing Odysseus’ encounter with the sirens to other instances of this scene type and other marine-themed mosaics in North Africa.
This essay discusses the Cambodian Genocide in relation to international and legal definitions of Genocide and the philosophical, political and humanitarian implications of those definitions.
In contrast to critics who characterize John Milton's work as unconcerned with the material world, this essay argues that the material world is crucial to Milton's conception of the sublime.