Photograph of Bronislaw Malinowski, circa 1920, shortly after his return to England from his first major ethnographic...
Month: December 2017
The triumphal arch of Septimius Severus in Rome, erected in 203 CE to commemorate victory over the Parthians. / Photo by Mark...
Interior of the Pantheon Dome (photo by author) From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student J.P. Lehmer) / 09.16.2013...
Portrait of Marcel Proust painted by Jacques-Émile Blanche in 1892, when Proust was 21 years old. /...
Map of France showing the location of Lascaux By Mary Beth Looney / 11.19.2015 Acting Program Director...
Photo by Pixabay “We can create a spectacular legacy for our loved ones.” By Marlene Cimons / 11.08.2017...
Students from the author’s class on death and dying explore Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. /...
Colosseum interior / Photo by LemonCrumpet, Wikimedia Commons From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Megan Anderson) / 12.02.2015...
Pantheon, Photo by Steve Heddin, Wikimedia Commons From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Kristina N. Low) / 09.28.2011...
Image by donatas1205, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Alexis Elder / 12.03.2017 Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Minnesota...
Samadhi Mandir of Srila Prabhupada (back side) at ISKCON, Mayapur, West Bengal, India / Photo by Joydeep,...
Henry Wellcome with Sultans of Socota [Jebel Moya]. Photograph, 191? Wellcome Images reference: M0008634. By Carly Dakin...
Alexander Kellner (Museu Nacional/UFRJ) By Dr. Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone / 11.30.2017 Postgraduate Research Assistant in Palaeontology University of...
Palette of King Narmer, from Hierakonpolis, Egypt, Predynastic, c. 3000-2920 B.C.E., slate, 2′ 1″ high (Egyptian Museum,...
Çatalhöyük after the first excavations by James Mellaart and his team (photo: Omar hoftun, CC: BY-SA 3.0) By Dr....
Political reporter William D. Workman speaks at a GOP event in 1962. Courtesy of South Carolina Political Collections,...
Nikolaj Lübecker argues for the ethic of “feel-bad” films, movies in which desire for catharsis is built...
Detail from a photograph taken by Mr Sims of Wallace when he was 30 years old, in...
As part of a traditional ritual, elderly Bidayuh practitioners invite the rice spirit and other spirits to...
Batty, Robert. Lisbon: The largo do Pelourinho. Pintado pelo Tenente Coronel Batty; gravura por Freebain. Londres: Moon Boys &...
Wilmington Giant (1939) by Eric Ravilious / The Mainstone Press Eric Ravilious died when his aircraft went missing off...
Roman acqueduct near Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain / Photo by Cruccone, Wikimedia Commons From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student A. Maznamy)...
Figure 1: Roman road network at the peak of the Empire (Andrein, 2009) From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by...
A one-month supply of unused prescription drugs is stored at SafeNetRx, a prescription drug recycle program, in...
A political leader who seeks to make his nation “great again” and a time when ‘post-truth’ rhetoric...
Complex nature. Photo by Alan L/Flickr By Dr. Martin Rees / 12.01.2017 Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics...
“We will lose much of the record of the last several thousand years of human occupation in...
Initial Q: David Before Saul (detail) from a psalter, after 1205, Master of the Ingeborg Psalter. Tempera colors...
One man’s quest to create a library of everything, 500 years before Google Books was conceived, foreshadowed...
From Khan Academy By Dr. Bryan Zygmont / 11.21.2015 Associate Professor of Art History Clarke University Venus of Willendorf,...