Coming out at any age presents a series of life-altering challenges. Large areas of the U.S. remain sharply opposed to...
Month: June 2018
A timeline of Shakespeare’s plays / Creative Commons Defining national culture and identity. By Dr. Eugene O’Brien...
Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting with Adolf Hitler (28 November 1941). By Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1987-004-09A / Heinrich Hoffmann / CC-BY-SA...
Renaissance master Andrea Palladio designed Villa La Rotonda with rooms of various characters, which at night served...
Hendrick Avercamp’s ‘Ice Scene’ (c. 1610). Wikimedia Commons The function of fashion as a form of cultural transfer in...
Sky Atlantic We think of the Druids as being embedded in British culture from the mists of ancient times. But what we think we know...
© MGM With Vikings on trend, it’s high time for a masterclass on the bizarre world of their names. By Keith Ruiter / 02.18.2016...
By Dr. Katherine Mellon Charron Associate Professor of History North Carolina State University Introduction Segregation contradicts what...
George Caleb Bingham, “The County Election,”, via Reynolda House Museum of American Art How did the federal government...
Too late lads, the Scots are already there. Oscar Wergeland Iceland was one of the last island groups...
Mikladalur, Faroe Islands / Photo by Davide Gorla, Wikimedia Commons The Faroe Islands could have been inhabited 500 years earlier...
Jerash is famous for its well-preserved Greco-Roman columns, seen here on the ancient Jordanian city’s main street....
Virgil reads the Aeneid to Octavia and Augustus. Angelica Kauffmann/Hermitage/Wikimedia Commons Virgil’s epic poem The Aeneid documents the founding of Rome by a...