By Michael Bawaya In August of 1970, the renowned anthropologist Robert Carneiro published a paper titled “A Theory of the Origin of the State” in...

By Gayle Keck The present is catching up to the past. For millennia, Native Americans have entered altered states of consciousness for social, ceremonial, recreational,...

By David Malakoff In the early 1800s, Alexander Lindsay, a retired British general who was a former governor of Jamaica and the sixth Earl of...

By Jackie Rocheleau Most visitors to New York State begin and end their trips in New York City. But those traveling outside the urban center...