Literary translation has occurred for centuries (the Bible is a prime example). And with Nobel Prize winners...
Month: June 2018
Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867 / Library of Congress By Dr. Allen Carl Guelzo / 02.04.2018...
The Confederates marched on Gettysburg on account of their need for … shoes. By Dr. Catherine...
Giotto’s Last Judgment in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, inspired by Dante Alighieri’s vision of heaven and...
The stuff of legend. Shutterstock Norse mythology is having a moment as a leading author re-tells the tales for a new generation. By Dr. Carolyne Larrington /...
Image via PBS Rogers’ emphasis on kindness and love is proving to be very important to good health. Here’s why. By Dr. Richard Gunderman / 06.08.2018 Professor of...
The good news is that there are specific habits that you can practice in order to begin...
James Hansen testified to Congress A scholar of climate misinformation campaigns explains how, in part, the large...
Walter Frentz photographed Adolf Hitler strolling with German diplomat Walther Hewel in the Berchtesgaden Alps, near the...
Photo by Don Tormey/LA Times/Getty The problem is that people are taking her seriously. In some cases,...
Andrew Wyeth stands by a creek on his Chadd’s Ford, Pennsylvania property in 1964. AP Photo/Bill Ingraham, Creative...
Georg Trakl in 1910 – Wikimedia Commons To mark the 100th anniversary of the death by cocaine overdose...
San Diego Giant on display at side show In December of 1896, a group of anatomists and...
The pirate flag of Captain Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard. The flag shows a skeleton spearing a heart...
“The Ancient Wrasse”, a detail from the frontispiece to The Aquarium (1856, 2nd edition) — Biodiversity Library Bernd Brunner on...
“A Group of Carnations”, a plate from Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1807) — Internet Archive Bridal beds, blushing captives,...
What are your in-groups and out-groups? ksenia_bravo/Shutterstock.com Our neural circuits lead us to find comfort in those like us...
Location of the sunken island of Cyanida / Kianida on Ptolemy’s 9th European Map (Nona Europae Tabula)...
By Dr. Émile Benveniste (1902-1976) Former Professor of Linguistics Collège de France Gift and Exchange Abstract Greek has five words...
John Brown in “The Tragic Prelude,” displayed at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka. Painted by John...
By Dr. Robert Weible / 06.03.2018 Past President, National Council on Public History Retired State Historian, New...
Middle left (detail), Scenes from the Apocalypse, Paris-Oxford-London Bible moralisée, France, c. 1225-45 (The British Library, Harley MS...
Lindisfarne Gospels, St. Matthew (detail), Second Initial Page, f.29, early 8th century (British Library) By Louisa Woodville...
Members of a caravan of Central Americans walk from Mexico to the U.S. side of the border...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 06.19.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Rise of Babylon The Emergence of the...
The first civilizations formed in river valleys, and were characterized by a caste system and a strong...
Detail from Henry Warren’s 1839 portrait of John Martin, National Portrait Gallery. Max Adams, author of The Prometheans,...
Sir Francis Drake. Line engraving by T. de Leu after J. Rabel, between 1587 and 1589. Wellcome Library...
Mosaic Icon with the Virgin and Child, late 1200s, made in Constantinople. Glass and gold tesserae on...
View of the Piazza del Campo, Siena By Dr. Joanna Milk Mac Farland / 12.30.2015 Art Historian...