Don DeLillo, New York City, 1990s How do the literary, visual, and plastic arts fashion questions about...
Month: July 2018
Sisters from Guatemala seeking asylum, cross a bridge to a port of entry in to the United...
British Library, Public Domain How early Asian settlers earned a living and made a home in Britain.     ...
“East India House,” by Thomas Malton the Younger (1748-1804) / Yale Center for British Art, Wikimedia Commons...
 Coriolanus Addressing the Plebeians, George Cruikshank One of the most fundamental characteristics of civilization is the rule of...
In Ancient Greece, was considered as a normal state and peace was seen only as an exception or...
Registration rates for voters aged 18-29 have significantly increased in key battleground states over the last seven months...
British supply convoy with Russian escorts in Iran, September 1941 / Public Domain At dawn on August...
HMS Empire Windrush / Royal Navy official photographer, Wikimedia Commons Looking at some of the forgotten voyages that brought...
Engraved illustration from Harper’s Weekly newspaper of the wedding of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and...
Society has always been infatuated with dating and finding true love, especially during the Middle Ages. By Dr....
Music has played a central role in Greek Orthodox services for centuries. Nicolas Bell describes the manuscript...
Byzantine Constantinople (modern Istanbul), c.1000 CE / Wikimedia Commons Surveying the many written sources for Byzantine history. By...
22nd September 1776: British soldiers preparing to hang the American patriot and spy, Nathan Hale (1755 –...
‘Scene at Bideford Bridge’, by Mark Myers, showing the crowded waters of the Torridge during the heyday...
Protestors demonstrate outside the University of Michigan Stadium May 1, 2010 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. U.S. President...
Medieval Novgorod, by Apollinary Vasnetsov / Wikimedia Commons The Vikings raided, traded and settled as far afield...
Chieftains house replica / Photo by Juanjo Marin, Wikimedia Commons Archaeological artefacts found in places such as...
Image of Timbuktu manuscripts / Wikimedia Commons The history of illuminated manuscripts goes back to antiquity. In this...
Papyrus Bodmer VIII / Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Wikimedia Commons What did books look like in antiquity? In...
dwell.com Looking at the urban social history of Accra through the singular Oxford Street, part of the city’s...
Use of a hand-siphon, a portable flame-thrower, from a siege tower equipped with a boarding bridge against...
Add MS 34654 / British Library The development of printing in the 15th century signaled huge changes...
Celsus Library, Ephesus / Photo by the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Wikimedia Commons How were books stored and...
The newly found inscription provides invaluable information about the construction of the Roman thermae in the Ancient...
Creative Commons Photo The tenacity of the Commune’s second life does not simply attest to its continuing...
The archives of American artistic production, letters, journals, and their contemporary circles in France can be brought...
Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images Standing up to a lawless President — ruling for the Constitution — is...
Sammelband of three books, edge shown with clasps / Science History Institute, Wikimedia Commons Ann Tomalak provides...
Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary / Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wikimedia Commons The transition from parchment to paper as...