The interdisciplinary major in Islamic Civilization and Societies encompasses faculty and courses from across the university. The program prepares students for careers in diplomacy, journalism, ...

For centuries, the story of global civilization has been told as a linear march—from ancient societies to the industrialized West, from hand‑crafted livelihoods to machine‑driven progress, from ...

For the first time in two decades, there are more closed autocracies than liberal democracies in the world, but the future is not entirely bleak. This is shown in this year's democracy report from the ...

From the Smithsonian report for 1943. "Reprinted from Smithsonian [institution] War background studies, no. 1, Publ. 3681, June 10,1942." ...