Sally James Farnham, Equestrian Portrait of Simón Bolivar, dedicated 1921, bronze, 13 feet 6 inches tall (located at...
Month: February 2017
The Magellanic Clouds, the two largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, appear to be connected by...
Research suggests that spending too little time in nature deprives us of benefits to our health, happiness,...
Florence Nightingale: More than a nurse By Dr. Joy Lisi Rankin / 02.16.2017 Assistant Professor of History,...
Installation view of Cupid Carving a Bow from Hercules’s Club (1750); in the background, preparatory drawings for...
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, 1862. Mural, United States Capitol. By Ethan...
By Lisa M. Lane / 05.15.2016 Professor of History MiraCosta College Introduction The High Middle Ages was...
Pont du Gard, in Vers-Pont-du-Gard, Gard department, South France. The Pont du Gard is the most famous...
Excavated ruins of Mohenjo-daro, with the Great Bath in the foreground and the Buddhist Stupa in the...
Ruins of Limantepe in Western Anatolia (Turkey) / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jeremy B. Rutter Professor Emeritus...
By Jacob Devaney / 02.14.2017 What can We Learn from Tribal Tricksters? Sometimes you need to break...
By David Brafman and Lisa Cambier / 07.19.2012 Brafman: Rare Books Curator, Getty Research Institute Cambier:...
Boris Yeltsin (left) and Mikhail Gorbachev (right) / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor...
This mural, created over eighty years after Brown’s death, captures the violence and religious fervor of the man...
Charles Willson Peale, “The Peale Family,” ca. 1771-1773, via New York Historical Society. By Dr. Emily Arendt...
Portrait of William Shakespeare 1564-1616. Chromolithography after Hombres y Mujeres celebres 1877 / Barcelona Museum Lecture by...
Model of the Roman Port / Port of London Authority Lecture by Dr. Gustav Milne, Museum of...
The Mithraeum of the Seven Gates. / Photograph: Bill Storage. Mithraism By Alison Griffith Mithraism is the...
A protest in New York’s Washington Square Park days after Donald Trump’s election. Muhammed Muheisen/AP By Dr....
Shutterstock By Dr. Firmin DeBrabander / 02.13.2017 Professor of Philosophy Maryland Institute College of Art In the...
George Caleb Bingham, “The County Election,” via Reynolda House Museum of American Art. By Dr. Christopher Childers /...
By Dr. Nicholas K. Rauh Professor of Classics Purdue University The Roman Cursus Honorum / Wikimedia Commons...
Reconstruction painting of the Acropolis and Areus Pagus in Athens, by Leo von Klenze / Neue Pinakothek...
Trans-Siberian Railroad / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor of Russian and European History...
Group of men who were test subjects in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments, 1972 / U.S. Department of...
Portrait of Saint Valentine from a medieval illuminated manuscript / Wikimedia Commons By Riya Roy / 01.12.2016...
The Romanovs / Wikimedia Commons The period between the Russian Revolution of February 1917, which resulted in...
Georgian alphabet. An entry in the ‘Write in Georgian Contest’. Photo from official website of ‘Write in...
A rally against Trump’s refugee ban at Reagan National Airport on February 2, 2017. Photo by Geoff Livingston...
The Monument of Lorraine, France, which celebrates the outcome of the engagements of August/September 1914. The battle...