Combined image of Beer Street and Gin Lane, by William Hogarth / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Klaus-Dieter Ertler / 06.28.2012...
Month: February 2018
Installation view of Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros at...
Pouring Saison, a classic Belgian farmhouse-style ale, at Allagash Brewing in Portland, Maine. Allagash Brewing, CC BY By...
By the end of the 13th century, the Mongol Empire covered 9.27 million square miles, spanning a...
These “oracle bone” fragments, some of which show an ancient Chinese script, are housed at the Royal...
1908 postcard of the White City Stadium, the main arena built especially for the 1908 Olympics Rebecca...
Detail from “How to Tell Your Friends from the Japs,” Time magazine, December 22, 1941 (Vol. XXXVIII, No. 25), p....
By Dr. Christian Marx / 09.28.2012 Professor of Economic History University of Trier Abstract This article discusses...
Waldseemüller (Martin Waldseemüller) map from 1507 is the first map to include the name “America” and the first...
By Dr. Ioannis Papadogiannakis Lecturer in Patristics King’s College London Earth and sea are freed from their...
Keystone in the Shape of a Foliate Face, about 1225–36, made in Stymphalia, Greece. Stone, probably sandstone,...
A protest to mark the first anniversary of the Delhi gang rape, in New Delhi, 2013. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi...
Photo by Alan Levine, Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. Elise Crull / 02.02.2018 Assistant Professor in History...
By Dr. Don C. Skemer / 10.14.2016 Curator of Manuscripts Rare Books & Special Collections Department Princeton...
Detail from Jan van Neck’s Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Frederick Ruysch (1683), showing Ruysch in the centre with an...
Monumental funerary vases from the Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, now on display at the Getty Villa....
The Oracle, 1880, Camillo Miola (Biacca). Oil on canvas, 42 1/2 x 56 1/4 in. The J....
The Ancestors of Christ: David, Solomon – Michelangelo By Krista M.B. / 07.22.2017 Historian According to legend,...
Photograph Joyce had made in Zurich, 1915, and sent to Michael Healy, Nora’s uncle. Source: Beinecke Rare...
As the site of the baptism of Jesus Christ, the Jordan River is the source of all...
By Dr. Elizabeth Kramer Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Music History University of West Georgia Introduction and...
This sarcophagus depicts a variety of ancient musical instruments, including the tympanum (drum), flute, and kymbala (cymbals)....
Relief panel with The Spoils of Jerusalem Being Brought into Rome, Arch of Titus, Rome, after 81 C.E.,...
Apollo Crowning Himself (detail), 1781–82, Antonio Canova. Marble, 33 3/8 in. high. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 95.SA.71....
By Lalita Kaplish / 03.02.2016 Wed Editor Wellcome Library George Shuttleworth was a psychiatrist and an asylum...
St Lukes Hospital, London: patients case book 1912-1916. Wellcome Library reference: H64/B06/015. What did it mean for a...
The Execution of Admiral Byng, 14 March 1757 / Royal Museums Greenwich By Dr. Joe Krulder /...
How many times do we wonder, ‘what’s the right thing to do’? Ed Yourdon from New York City,...
Detail of Colossal Krater from Altamura, about 350 B.C., Greek, made in Apulia, South Italy. Terracotta, 63 in. high...
An 1894 cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper criticizes American newspapers’ elasticity with the truth. Library of Congress By...