Portrait of John Quincy Adams, by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1858 / White House Blue Room ...
Month: February 2017
Image by Mark Bryan By Shaun Mullen / 02.03.2017 All things being equal, which they rarely are...
Portrait of Thomas Paine by Auguste Millière, 1880 / National Portrait Gallery, Washington A focus on the...
Moscow before Reconstruction, by Viktor Ruikovich (1927) / Photodome By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor of...
The Beggars Chorus: this ballad celebrates someone who was often treated as a pariah by early modern...
The Chapel of Saint Ananias, located near Bab Sharqi in the old Christian quarter of Damascus, Syria,...
Surgeons and their patients are finding that virtual reality can relieve the pain and stress of operations...
A 2016 poll found two-thirds of Americans say churches and other houses of worship should not come...
Tablet V of the epic of Gilgamesh. The left half of the whole tablet has survived and...
Ming dynasty (1368-1644) waterwheel at Lanzhou, Gansu / Photo by Caitriana Nicholson, Wikimedia Commons 11.30.2016 Chinese Technology...
Early Minoan Settlement at Trypiti / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jeremy B. Rutter Professor Emeritus of...
From a teensy skeleton to a dog’s tombstone, a tour through the most evocative death-related objects in...
Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783. Britannia offers solace and a...
President Dwight Eisenhower stands with the host, Conrad Hilton, right, hotelman, as prayer opens fourth annual prayer...
Stalin on building of Moscow-Volga canal. It was constructed from 1932 to 1937 by Gulag prisoners. /...
Marble statue of Mithras slaying the bull, 2nd century CE / British Museum By Dr. Mark Damen...
Theodor de Bry, “Negotiating Peace With the Indians,” 1634 / Virginia Historical Society By Erin Bonuso Kramer...
Coin fountain / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Peter Wogan / 01.26.2017 Professor of Anthropology Willamette University Why...
Premature babies are at high risk of brain damage – but many are too fragile to make...
Tower of London / Wikimedia Commons By Helen Birk / 02.01.2017 18th Century History The Tower of...
Mural on the wall of St Thomas the Martyr, Salisbury / Wikimedia Commons Dr. Wrightson examines the...
President Donald Trump and chief strategist Steve Bannon. (Photo: Getty) “If you’re still trying to convince yourself...
Statue base of Hadrian set in the Theatre of Dionysus on the south slope of the Acropolis,...
An Assembly of Witches, by Frans Franken II, 1607 / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Lecture by Dr. Keith...
Soviet Square (now Minin & Pozharsky Square), 1930. Dmitry Tower of Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin on the background....