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Manabozho Pictograph as a Giant Rabbit
Nanabozho (Manabozho) pictograph, Mazinaw Rock, Bon Echo Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Photograph by D. Gordon E. Robertson, 2010. The pictograph represents Manabozho as a giant rabbit, one of the many forms the trickster figure would...

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Empires of Bronze: Son of Ishtar
Empires of Bronze: Son of Ishtar is Gordon Doherty's richly detailed fictionalization of events and people who lived during the height of the Hittite Empire. Set in the 1300s BCE, the story follows King Mursili's third son, Hattusili III...

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Strategos: Born in the Borderlands
Strategos: Born in the Borderlands, by Gordon Doherty, is a novel following the incredible exploits of Apion, a Byzantine boy living among Seljuk farmers in the lawless area at the edge of Byzantium in the 1040’s CE. Set in Anatolia (modern-day...

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Huguenots and the French Reformation
The French Reformation gave us the Huguenots or French Calvinism. The Huguenot movement, though, is often not understood. This video tells the story of the Huguenots, French Calvinists, and the French Wars of Religion. Ryan M. Reeves (PhD...

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Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, & Nationalism: Crash Course
In which John Green teaches you about Nationalism. Nationalism was everywhere in the 19th century, as people all over the world carved new nation-states out of old empires. Nationalist leaders changed the way people thought of themselves...

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Why did Phillis Wheatley disappear? - Charita Gainey
Get to know the life and works of poet Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman who became one of colonial America’s most famous writers. – In 1775, General George Washington received a poem from one of colonial America’s most famous writers...

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Boethius and Christian Philosophy
Ryan M. Reeves (PhD Cambridge) is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

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Martin Luther and the 95 Theses
The 95 Theses in many ways started the Protestant Reformation. Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the church door of Wittenberg, and the Catholic Church later excommunicated him for these views. But what are the 95 Theses? Why did Luther post...

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What is Juneteenth, and why is it important? - Karlos K. Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio
Get to know the history of Juneteenth, a commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War. – At the end of the Civil War, though slavery was technically illegal in all states, it still persisted in the last...

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Luther's Reformation Breakthrough
While still a monk, Martin Luther had a breakthrough in his view on justification by faith alone. But what was Luther's breakthrough? What changed in Luther's view of salvation that led to the Protestant Reformation? This video explains Luther's...