Splitting up a family at auction / Public Domain The weeping time does not end with weeping;...
Month: April 2018
Collector Keya Morgan bought this photograph of two slave children, which was accompanied by a document detailing...
From the diary / Author provided It speaks to us as a warning today. By Dr. Robert...
Bloodletting was treatment for infection in the past. Wellcome Library, London, CC BY While some ancient therapies proved effective enough...
Torhalle Lorsch / Photo by Immanuel Giel, Wikimedia Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.29.2018HistorianBrewminate Editor-in-Chief 1...
By Dr. Ronald Beiner / 04.29.2018 Professor of Political Science University of Toronto For generations, intellectuals of...
Rattling Wine Cup, about 350 B.C., Greek (South Italian). Terracotta, 8 7/16 × 11 7/16 in. The...
Porch of Maidens, Acroplis, Athens / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Marcel Detienne Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of...
Scene from frontispiece to EPB/47966/A: Jane Sharp, The compleat midwife’s companion: or, the art of midwifry improv’d...
The citizens of Toumai bury their dead during the black death. Miniature from manuscript, Belgium, 14th century....
Viking funerals remain shrouded in mystery. StockCube Why an intrepid trio went to the Isle of Eigg armed with Viking shields and poetry torecreate a funeral ceremony from 1000...
There’s something in the water. Shutterstock The reach of the Vikings in England went further than we thought. By Dr. Derek Gore / 04.18.2016...
Jerusalem Old City from Mount of Olives / Photo by Wayne McLean, Wikimedia Commons The United States...
The detail of the Alexander Mosaic showing Alexander the Great / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Frank L. Holt / 04.16.2018...
Death of Adonis, by Luca Giordano, c.1685 / The Yorck Project via Wikimedia Commons By Elias N. Azar...
Behind the mask. National Galleries of Scotland By Dr. Elsje van Kessel / 10.31.2017 Lecturer in Art History...
“Vasili Arkhipov is arguably the most important person in modern history, thanks to whom October 27, 2017...
Soviet leaders Red Square, Moscow, USSR celebrating the second anniversary of the October Revolution / Photo by L.Y....
J. Paul Getty (at left) views a model of the Getty Villa at Sutton Place, his home...
Fragment from an ancient copy of Euclid’s Elements / Pinterest, Creative Commons By Dr. Michael Fowler / 07.23.2015 Maxine...
William Etty’s Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers,...
By Dr. Bryan C. Keene / 12.14.2015 Adjunct Professor of Art History Pepperdine University As a certified Star Wars fan (thanks...
Photo by kallerna, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Michael Fowler Maxine S. and Jesse W. Beams Professor of Physics...
The Globe Theatre, Panorama Innenraum, London / Photo by Maschinenjunge, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Kevin Seiffert and...
The painting depicts the end of the 1381 peasant’s revolt, mentioned in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The image...
All accounted for in Babylon. Belshazzar’s Feast by Rembrandt. Everett – Art/Shutterstock The number crunchers who helped create our...
Creative Commons By Dr. Michael Fowler / 06.12.2015 Maxine S. and Jesse W. Beams Professor of Physics...
German soldiers, some with flowers others waving or rasing their clenched fists, in a railroad car on...
The Battle of Malplaquet, 1709: The Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene Entering the French Entrenchments, by Louis...
A woman shows her support for Planned Parenthood at the Women’s March in New York City on...