01.16.2017 In what can only be described as a heroic act, a golden retriever managed to save...
Year: 2017
Illustration of Plato’s allegory of the cave / Yale University, Creative Commons By Dr. Steven Smith /...
Map of Boston, 1650 / Public Domain Lecture by Dr. Joanne Freeman / 01.14.2010 Professor of History...
Wood engraving of a Merovingian country nobleman’s estate / Yale University, Creative Commons Lecture by Dr. Paul...
Colosseum, Rome / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Diana E.E. Kleiner / 02.19.2009 Dunham Professor, History of...
By Kira M. Newman / 01.13.2017 Are You a Rebel or a Conformist? We want to be...
Portraits of Joséphine and Napoleon Bonaparte / Wikimedia Commons By Catherine Delors Every marriage is complex, this...
Baptism of Clovis, by Master of Saint Giles, c.1500, oil on panel / Samuel H. Kress Collection,...
Cult copper statue of a crocodile. From Faiyum, modern-day Egypt. Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, circa 1800 BCE....
Nero’s Domus Aureau, Rome, 64-68 CE / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Diana E.E. Kleiner / 02.17.2009...
By Mike Lofgren / 01.14.2017 The election of Donald Trump has triggered as much wonderment abroad as...
The Old Centaur, Hadrianic grey-black marble sculpture of a centaur based on Hellenistic models. By Carole Raddato...
Portrait of Marie Antoinette / Public Domain By Catherine Delors Historical Novelist The Queen liked to be...
Reconstruction (courtesy Dr. Bernard Frischer, Rome Reborn), Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus (Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus) Rome,...
Dig at Troy / Wikimedia Commons While digs at ancient sites have in general revealed much important...
By Dr. John S. Wilkins / 08.05.2016 Honorary Research Fellow University of Melbourne Nature versus Humanity Before...
The motor merchant Caribsea prior to World War II. Photo courtesy of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections,...
Trafficking of Ancient Roman statues from the Middle East has gotten a Bulgarian and a Turk a...
Early Modern English port / Public Domain Lecture by Dr. Keith Wrightson / 09.15.2009 Randolph W. Townsend,...
Auguste Comte, Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber By Dr. Iván Szelényi / 09.03.2008 Professor Emeritus...
Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula / Wikimedia Commons From that famed night of ghost-stories in a Lake...
An electroconvulsive therapy machine is seen at an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London in 2012....
Emperor Justinian and his retinue, Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, 527-457 CE, mosaic / Wikimedia Commons By...
Tombs on the Appian Way, Rome / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Diana E.E. Kleiner / 02.12.2009...
An anti-Trump protest at the Baltimore Convention Center on September 12, 2016. Photo by Elvert Barnes Photography /...
Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game, by Exekias, vase painting, 6th century BCE / Wikimedia Commons By...
01.10.2017 The Neuroscience of Coping with Information Overload The whole brain works as a unit to keep...
When 13-year-old Qin Emperor Shi Huangdi came to power in 221 B.C.E., one of his first acts...
Self-Portrait, about 1730, Edme Bouchardon (French, 1698–1762). Red chalk, 19.8 x 13.5 cm. The Morgan Library &...
Does our dependence on smartphones harm our social fabric? / Shutterstock By Dr. Kostadin Kushlev / 01.11.2017...