As the Supreme Court prepares to announce their decision in the controversial Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby, Marci Hamilton has released an updated electronic edition of her constitutional law classic, God vs. the Gavel. In this new edition, she sets the record straight about the move toward extreme religious liberty in America and the dangers of letting religious rights trump our most basic laws.
R. E. Batchelor takes a close look at the links between Nietzsche's ideology and the work of André Malraux in the first of a two-part series.
Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb, the author of The International Distribution of News, explains the origins of our news associations, the concept of news as property, and how modern technology is changing the newsman's business model.
The Great War was the first global war and one of the deadliest conflicts in history. The high cost of World War I, which left 10 million soldiers dead, is one of its most enduring legacies.
Take a picture of yourself with your favorite Cambridge Canto Classic and you could win a Kindle Fire HD! There’s still time to enter our #CantoSelfie contest. Guidelines for submissions: Contestants...
Almost one hundred years after he proposed his earth-shattering general theory of relativity, Albert Einstein remains one of the most important innovators in the history of science. With a new complete guide to his work, Cambridge honors the scientist who shaped our understanding of the modern world.
Since our recreation of Romeo and Juliet through iMessages and tweets was so popular, we're bringing back digital Shakespeare! Here's what happens when some of your favorite Shakespeare moments meet today's technology.
In this excerpt, get a peek at the latest from leading Jane Austen scholar John Wiltshire. In The Hidden Jane Austen, he offers new interpretations of Austen's six novels and a new approach to criticism when it comes to one of the most celebrated novelists in the English language.
Understanding The Great War today, a century after it began, remains a challenge for historians. In his general introduction to the three-volume Cambridge History of the First World War, Jay Winter describes the way scholars understand the war as it recedes further into our global past.
Examining the winner of 2014's World Press Photo of the Year award, Valeska Huber, author of Channelling Mobilities, explores global mobility and border crossing in the modern world.
The land and history of Egypt have fascinated Western visitors since the time of Herodotus, and probably earlier. The Greeks allegedly tried to disguise their reaction to the gigantic remains of Egypt’s past by naming them with diminutives: ‘obeliskos’, a little ‘obelos’, or cooking spit; ‘puramis’, a small cake.
From milliseconds to billions of years the atmosphere is highly variable, but thanks to aircraft, satellites and ice and ocean cores and other proxies, it has been quantified to an unprecedented degree;...