02.20.2017 Photos by Sina Weibo Zhao Yongjiu, a 56-year-old street cleaner from Shenyang, China, recently won the...
Month: February 2017
“School Begins,” Puck, January 25, 1899. By Ellen Adams and Dr. Amy Kohout / 08.01.2016 Adams:...
War brought destruction across the South. Governmental and private buildings, communication systems, the economy, and transportation infrastructure...
The attempted arrest of the “Five Members” by Charles I in 1642, by Charles West Cope /...
17,000-year old cave paintings from the Lascaux caves in southwestern France. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Eugene...
Do you see happiness as within your control to improve? A new study has linked this belief...
Astronomers are borrowing principles applied in biology and archaeology to build a family tree of the stars...
By Michael Gerson / 02.19.2017 Washington Post Columnist In early January, Speaker Paul Ryan met on...
White House / U.S. National Archives and Records Administration By Louisa Hotson / 08.09.2016 PhD Candidate in...
“Mulberry Street, New York City,” ca. 1900, Library of Congress By Jacob Betz / 08.01.2016 PhD Candidate...
Slave shackles in a display case at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, print by Albrecht Dürer, 1498 / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...
The Great Mosque of Divriği, photograph by Avniyazici By Hugh Jeffrey / 01.16.2017 PhD Candidate in Archaeology...
A mountain stream / Photo by Dilshad Roshan, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Noémie Beck / 12.04.2009 Professor...
Anatolian nazar symbol / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Güliz Ulu / 05.24.2016 Professor of Linguistics Huazhong University...
The Battle of Grunwald (July 15, 1410), by Jan Matejko, 1878 / National Museum in Warsaw, Poland...
Roman mint die / British Museum, London Introduction The Roman Empire at the end of the Third...
Plaster cast in Pushkin Museum. The original was found in the surroundings of Rome, is part of...
Cagle Cartoons By Dick Polman / 02.17.2017 Writer in Residence, Political Columnist University of Pennsylvania To best...
04.18.2015 For Satish Kumar, friendship is the organizing principle of life For the past ten years I...
Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, novelist and poet Walter Scott’s phenomenally popular novels and poems created an...
Collecting the Dead. Cold Harbor, Virginia. April, 1865. Via Library of Congress. By Dr. Thomas Balcerski and...
Mesopotamia: The “Land Between the Rivers” Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.17.2017 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Timeline of...
The New Thought movement left behind an important legacy. Wesley Nitsckie By Dr. Christopher H. Evans /...
Joshua Speed found his BFF in Abraham Lincoln. Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Charles B. Strozier / 02.15.2017...
Gate at Porta Romana / Wikimedia Commons Necropolises NOTE: The Isola Sacra necropolis will be covered in...
Reconstructed illustration of the Palace of Knossos, Crete / Wikimedia Commons By Lisa M. Lane / 10.09.2016...
A design for a flying machine, by Leonardo da Vinci, 1488 / Institut de France, Paris By...
Ruins of Gudhem Abbey, Founded in 1152 in Gudhem, Västergötland (Sweden) / Wikimedia commons By Lisa M....
A woman holds Pope Francis’ head during his meeting with representatives of indigenous peoples at the Vatican...