Spoiler Alert: no. Everything you've been taught about "race" is is completely made up. Here's how we know...
Paul B. Sturtevant
Introducing a new Public Medievalist series: taking on the white-supremacist ideas of the medieval past, and exploring the stories of people of color in the Middle Ages.
At the National Prayer Breakfast this morning, President Trump promoted his typically dark vision of Middle Eastern politics: We have seen peace loving Muslims brutalize, victimize, murdered and oppressed by ISIS killers. We have seen
Donald Trump's rise has revealed an ugly truth: that, for some, prejudice is an addictive source of pleasure. Can a medieval idea help us fight back?
The military flail may have, in fact, existed. But not at all in the places that we think they did...
A vile slur with medieval origins has gone mainstream due to the rise of Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and the Alt-Right: "cuck". Here's what you need to know...
An exciting exhibition at the Walters Art Museum asks: how is art recycled, upcycled, and reused throughout history?
What if I were to tell you that a weapon that you've seen in books, movies and museums wasn't actually real?
Exploding the Phantom Time Hypothesis using logic, history, and science!