By William St. Clair / 05.10.2013 Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies University of London By...
Month: March 2017
Storming the beach at Omaha / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. William A. Pelz Professor of History Elgin...
Figure 1: Khipu demonstrates repeating colour sequence. 64-19-1-1-6-2 of the Musée de l’Homme (now in Musée du...
Mount Nemrut, built by the Armenian Antiochus I Theos of Commagene, is notable for its summit where...
“Emperor Akbar on an elephant hunt,” Basawan and Chetar, illustrations from the Akbarnama, c. 1586-89, Mughal Empire,...
Excavation of the burial site of Richard III / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Sarah Tarlow / 09.14.2015...
By Dr. Christina Tsouparopoulou / 08.28.2015 Professor of Archaeology University of Heidelberg Introduction This article discusses the...
Clay with textile impressions from Dolni Vestonice, 29,000 to 22,000 years ago. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr....
Giacomo Balla, Street Light, c. 1910-11 (dated 1909), oil on canvas, 174.7 x 114.7 cm (The Museum...
Monumental Arch, Nicholas Hanhart after Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe, Viscountess Strangford. Color lithograph. 3.9 x 6.4 in....
Portraits of French Philhellenes: Jean de Jargow and batallion Captain Dania. / Wikimedia Commons By William St....
By Carole Raddato / 04.29.2014 Historian Art has always been an important part of human existence. Over...
Pyramid of Kheops, Egypt / Wikimedia Commons By Jennifer Sarathy and Amy Raffel / 01.16.2016 PhD Candidates...
Lecture by Dr. Tristram Hunt at the Museum of London / 10.05.2016 Lecturer in Modern British History...
Coronation portrait of King Edward VII, by Sir Luke Fildes, 1901 / National Portrait Gallery, London Lecture...
By Guity Novin / 03.23.2014 Graphic Designer, Artist During the 19th century many artists looked at their...
A 19th-century tattoo from the collection that once belonged to the late Dr. Nicolae Minovici, a famous...
Drawing of what part of Tenochtitlan may have looked like / By Diego Rivera, Wikimedia Commons...
Reconstruction of the inner peristyle of the House of the Vettii in Pompeii. The original garden would have...
Boxing will still be filled with will they, won’t they questions / Image by Jeffrey Pott (Flickr...
By Dr. Lionel Gossman / 05.28.2015 M. Taylore Pyne Professor of Romance Languages Princeton University The best-known,...
The Massacre at Chios, by Eugène Delacroix (1824) / Louvre Museum, Paris By William St. Clair /...
By Dr. Brian Parkinson Professor of History Georgia Southwestern State University Introduction An inveterate adventurer and...
Lecture by Dr. Ian Friel at Barnard’s Inn Hall / 10.31.2013 Historian, Museum Consultant Introduction In November...
A facsimile of the papyrus with the text “Constitution of the Athenians” by Aristotle / British Library,...
Dear Bill Gates, 1999, Allan Sekula. Photograph. The Getty Research Institute, 2016.M.22. © Allan Sekula Studio LLC....
There wouldn’t be statues acclaiming Darwin and his theory if it couldn’t stand up to decades of...
Lamartine in front of the Town Hall of Paris rejects the red flag on 25 February 1848,...
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David, 1787 / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York By Dr....
Byzantine Constantinople (modern Istanbul), c.1000 CE / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Andrew Reeves Assistant Professor of History...