Opening card of the U.S. army WWII short animated films “Private Snafu”, 1943 – Wikimedia Commons Between 1943...
Month: January 2018
By Dr. John Childs / 08.01.2011 Emeritus Professor of Military History University of Leeds Abstract To operate...
Pearl Curran in 1919 – St. Louis Post-Dispatch In early 20th-century St. Louis, Pearl Curran claimed to have...
By Dr. Bruce Chadwick / 01.05.2018 Lecturer in History and Film Rutgers University “Poe foresaw the darkness...
Plaster cast of the Tomb of Scipio Barbata in-situ, early 3rd century B.C.E. (original, Vatican Museums) (photo:...
By Dr. Gregory Nagy Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Professor of Comparative Literature Director, Center for Hellenic...
A native of the Kayaye village, dressed head to toe in boughs and leaves as part of...
Map of Northern France from Calais in the north to Paris in the south in 1811. Image...
Upper register (detail), Dioskourides, Gemma Augustea, 9 – 12 C.E., 19 x 23 cm, double-layered sardonyx with gold,...
By Dr. Julia Fischer / 08.08.2015 Lecturer of Art History Georgia Southern University Augustus and the power...
John Calvin on his deathbed in 1564, from a 19th-century engraving / Public Domain By Dr....
By Dr. Aaron Graham / 09.22.2015 Professor of History University College London Abstract Warfare was one of...
Courtesy Doug Boyer/Morphosource By Dr. Douglas Martin Boyer / 02.25.2016 Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology Duke University ‘Seeing...
A neanderthal skull, left hand side of one of Boule’s stereographs included in his L’Homme de La Chapelle (1911)...
By Dr. John Medina / 01.21.2018 Affiliate Professor of Bioengineering University of Washington School of Medicine I...
Head and torso (detail), Statue A, from the sea off Riace, Italy, c. 460-450 B.C.E. (?), 198...
The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 assembled the victors of the First World War, i.e. President Woodrow...
Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Joachim Whaley / 05.11.2015 Professor of German History and Thought University of Cambridge...
Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism, Seattle, Washington. Wonderlane, CC BY By Dr. Pamela Winfield / 01.22.2018 Associate Professor of...
Portrait of a Man with a Quilted Sleeve, Titian, c.1509. / National Gallery, London By Dr. Keith Frankish / 01.19.2018...
Ironworks of Dillingen in 1850 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Richard H. Tilly / 12.03.2010 Assistant Professor...
Coloured aquatint, ca. 1862, depicting a man covering his mouth with a handkerchief, walking through a smoggy...
Detail from John Leech’s illustration “Tarquinius Superbus makes himself king” featured in The Comic History of Rome – Internet Archive...
By Dr. Peter Kruschwitz / 11.29.2017 From The Petrified Muse Professor of Classics Fellow of the Pontifical Academy for Latin (Pontificia Academia...
David Blackwell/Flickr/Creative Commons By Dr. Keith Frankish / 05.27.2016 Visiting Research Fellow Open University Do you think racial stereotypes...
By Gilbert Ross / 11.28.2017 The Quantum Physics of Consciousness In philosophical debate, particularly in the philosophy...
Ossian’s Cave front door at The Hermitage, Scotland / Photo by Roger Griffith, Wikimedia Commons By Dr....
Modern rendering of a tree fairy By Dr. David A. Wacks / 05.24.2017 Professor of Spanish Department of Romance...
An illustrated Greek medical text was found beneath the oldest Arabic translation of the Gospels. (Courtesy of St....
Ankhesenamun hands Tut an arrow / Creative Commons By Jason Daley / 01.19.2018 King Tut became a...