Illustration of a small crowd gathered to watch as Martin Luther directs the posting of his 95...
Month: January 2018
By Dr. Jenna Weissman Joselit / 08.03.2017 Charles E. Smith Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of...
Image from Rebloggy By Dr. Michael Maurer / 12.03.2010 Professor of Philosophy Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Abstract In the 18th...
A photograph of the War Scroll, found in Qumran Cave 1, photographed by Eric Matson of the...
A new Harvard study suggests that people around the globe can identify lullabies, dancing songs, and healing...
By Dr. Ruchama Johnston-Bloom / 12.21.2016 Assistant Director of Academic Affairs CAPA The Global Education Network Around...
Landscape Gardens at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, UK | View of Palladian Bridge, Gothic Temple / By UKGardenPhotos, Flickr,...
Aldermen of the City of London Corporation represented as Chinese and as monsters in procession to Westminster...
Were U.S. diplomats at the embassy in Cuba stricken by a mass delusion? AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa Sociologists know...
“Des waerelds doen en doolen, is maar een mallemoolen,” engraving from Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, 1720 /...
Map with present-day nations By Dr. Jennifer Awes-Freeman / 08.08.2015 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History and Religious Studies...
Basilica of Santa Sabina, 422-432, Rome By Dr. Allen Farber / 08.08.2015 Professor of Art History State...
Fossilized teeth from a modern human who lived in Israel close to 200,000 years ago. Israel Hershkovitz, Tel...
James Crichton-Browne, A woman with pursed lips, West Riding Lunatic Asylum, c. 1869 – Wellcome Library Stassa Edwards explores...
Image Credit: Vanity Fair No one can showcase our grim American world, tweet by outrageous tweet, in...
Röttgen Pietà, c. 1300-25, painted wood, 34 1/2″ high (Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn) By Dr. Nancy Ross / 12.19.2016 Assistant...
Apa Abraham, c. 590-600, watercolor on panel, Egyptian (Bode Museum, Berlin) By Dr. Davor Džalto / 08.08.2015...
During Wintersession, students learn to make and use the technology that revolutionized human life. The atlatl, or...
Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos (or possibly Battle of Gaugamela), floor...
As long as clouds don’t get in the way, the view should be spectacular. NASA Goddard By Dr....
Fig 1 By Dr. Frank Wilczek / 12.11.2015 Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
A teenage Beatrix Potter with her pet mouse Xarifa, 1885, from Cotsen Children’s Library, Department of Rare...
The city of Salamanca. / Photo by Laura Tomàs Avellana, Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. Thomas Weller...
Knight, Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The “Westminster Psalter”), c. 1200, f. 220 (British Library)...
Basilica Ste-Madeleine, Vézelay, France, dedicated 1104 (photo: Dr. Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) By Christine M. Bolli...
Isaac Newton’s portrait. What can students learn from his life? Alessandro Grussu, Creative Commons By Dr. Muhammad H....
History is not just a few facts to be memorized. Greg Wass/Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. Ben Keppel /...
Daniel Day-Lewis won the 2012 Academy Award for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln. Is Spielberg’s historical drama...
Artefacts revealed by melting ice patches in the high mountains of Oppland shed new light on ancient...
Forum Boarium in the Imperial Age, Lanciani FUR, tab. XXVIII, detail “A very popular area exists that...