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East to Uzbekistan, where the classicist visits Termez. Here, she considers how Alexander the Great’s campaigns in the area, where he built a major city, led to a rich exchange of religious ideas.

Elizabeth Vassall’s audacious deception highlights how wealth, slavery and patriarchy collided in Georgian Britain ...

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Long before Blair Waldorf ruled Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Alva Vanderbilt was orchestrating social coups, courting ...