Martin Luther King Jr.‘s dream – which alternated between shattered and hopeful – can be traced back...
Month: March 2018
Linda Brown Smith, right, and her two children in their Topeka, KS home 1974. AP While Linda Brown...
The Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve (an illustration to Milton’s Paradise Lost) by William Blake (1808). Courtesy MFA...
Frontispiece image showing man haunted by melancholy, from The Anatomy of Melancholy By Harkiran Dhindsa / 03.30.2016 The...
Gravestone of Pollis, Greek, made in Megara, about 480 B.C. Marble, 60 1/4 in. high. The J....
A dramatic tale of love, betrayal, and vengeance, Medea is continually reinvented for new audiences. By Dr. Mary...
Dr Cornelius Herz escapes extradition on the ground that he has a terminal illness, and lives happily...
German Emperor Wilhelm II (1859–1941), centre, visiting a group of Ethiopians at Hagenbeck’s Tierpark in Hamburg in 1909 /...
By Dr. Richard Aspin / 08.08.2016 Head of Research Wellcome Library Locally harvested wild herbs were the foundation of...
A pharmacy. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700. Wellcome Library reference no. 44595i. By Dr. William...
Pair of Wristbands with Birds and Palmettes, Greek, made in Constantinople, 800s–900s. Gold with granulated decoration and...
Athenian black-gloss drinking cup (bolsal), about 400 B.C. Terracotta, 11 in. diam. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016.79.1,...
Tokyoites watch Hideo Nomo pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers at Sony Plaza on June 30, 1995. Shizuo...
President Theodore Roosevelt / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. David J. Trowbridge Associate Professor of History Marshall University...
A battle of the Second Crusade (illustration of William of Tyre’s Histoire d’Outremer, 1337) / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Nicholas Morton...
Medieval Persian manuscript depicting Muhammad leading Abraham, Moses and Jesus in prayer / From The Middle Ages. An...
Female “human computers” perform calculations at Langley Research Center, 1955; a day in the office at Velocity...
View of the Parthenon from the Propylaea, 1805, Simone Pomardi. Sepia, Sepia, 21 5/8 x 29 1/8...
Orphic Prayer Sheet, 350–300 B.C., Greek. Gold, 1 7/16 x 7/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum,...
William Harvey dissecting the body of Thomas Parr. Oil painting, ca. 1900. / Wellcome Images (Wellcome Trust)...
Untitled (Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, The Vexed Man, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA), 2008, Ken Gonzales-Day. Chromogenic...
George Washington reviews the troops near Fort Cumberland, Maryland, before their march to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western...
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882) / Pilgrim Hall Museum via Wikimedia Commons By Tom Feiling / 03.25.2018...
In 2016, a coalition of media, tech, and community organizations launched the Equitable Internet Initiative, a project...
By Erin Branham / 10.07.2012 Education Specialist for Family Programs Getty Villa I’m a fan of religion. That sounds glib,...
The archaeological site at Knossos, with restored rooms in the background, Crete (photo: Jebulon, public domain) By Dr....
Yakcheonsa Buddhist Temple, Jeju Island, South Korea / Creative Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.25.2018...
Figure 3.1 Map of Russia / CIA World Factbook Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.25.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief...
The Genius of Lithography, 1819, Nicolas Henri Jacob (French, 1781–1871), lithographer. Lithograph, 19.2 x 16.4 cm (sheet...
Paleographers at work: Participants in the Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography at the Getty Research Institute...