At the crossroads of ancient history and modernity, a project has been completed in Tashkent that is being described by some ...

Long ago, before Westerners associated "enlightenment" with meditation or yoga, there was the Enlightenment: the philosophical revolution of the 1600s and 1700s that made the modern West. Before the ...

At the beginning of July 1973, my wife and I arrived in London from Chicago to spend a year doing research in the British Library. Many things conspired to show us that we were not in Kansas anymore: ...

The French Enlightenment has long been understood as a break from past practices and traditions, and as a period in which reason, science, progress, and secularization were invented. Furthermore, ...

I last reviewed Jonathan Israel’s Radical Enlightenment on this site in 2001 just after it came out in hardback. Why return to it now? The book itself would justify another review since it is a large ...

In Egypt's history, there is a long list of education, culture and enlightenment pioneers fighting for the participation of women and their equality with men, including Malak Helmy Nassef. She was the ...

The churches relationship to the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment is an entangled history. Margaret Jacobs (“The Enlightenment critique of Christianity,” in The Cambridge History of ...

A unique class that has held a place at McLean High School for about 20 years, either as a club or in class form - will not be offered next year. Project Enlightenment, which began as a re-enactment ...

The mood is still euphoric among four campaign workers in the wee hours following the history-making 1973 election of Maynard Jackson as Atlanta’s first black mayor. But as post-campaign fatigue sets ...

The Enlightenment. By Ritchie Robertson.Allen Lane; 1,008 pages; £40. To be published in America by Harper in February; $45. IN SEPTEMBER THE University of Edinburgh expunged the name of David Hume ...