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.
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.
This essay comapres Francisco Goya's royal portraits with 18th Century Mexican Casta paintings and argues that Goya was influenced by the earler Mexican style.
This essay contends that Milton's critique of Sin and Death, and allegory more generally, lies in their relation to his system of signs and the epistemological value of those signs.
This essay provides a context for and English translation of 11 poems written by Chinese immigrants to the United States who were detained at Angel Island between 1910 and 1940.
