Brown University

The Costs of War Project is a team of over 30 scholars, doctors, and activists investigating the costs of the War on Terror in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and the US. We examine how many people ha...

Gods and goddesses, gleaming temples, epic battles, heroes of legend – we’re all familiar with ancient Greece, often seen as the foundation of Western culture. But what about medieval Athens? As th...

How did the construction of monastic buildings push monks to cooperate with people outside their cloister walls? The movement of materials and money for new chapter houses and churches required mon...