Aerial view of the Louvre Museum (2010), photo: Matthias Kabel (CC BY-SA 3.0) “The origin of the modern museum…is...
Month: July 2018
Gallery in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (photo:Â Dr. Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) When people think of museums,...
The view inside Pompeii’s old granary (Francesco Lastrucci) The famous archaeological treasure is falling into scandalous decline, even...
Ruins of the Roman Forum / Wikimedia Commons The early history of the Roman Republic was one...
Standing up for what’s right can come with a cost to the individual – but also a...
Not faking it. From the Apollo 15 mission. / NASA By Dr. Gloria Origgi / 03.14.2018 Philosopher, Tenured...
Photo by Bradley Siefert, Flickr, Creative Commons Many are unaware that most immigrants in the U.S. are here...
These ten historical moments help us understand the long and complicated relationships Catalunya has had with Spain...
Detail from a 1642 engraving by Hendrik Hondius, based on Peter Breughel’s 1564 drawing depicting sufferers of...
These clay tablets (letters) were found in the ruins of Akhenaten’s capital, Tell el-Amarna, Egypt. They were inscribed with...
A letter to the dead, addressed to the ‘excellent spirit, the Count, Overseer of the Army’.  First Intermediate...
Santa Maria Novella (Leon Battista Alberti was responsible for the façade, completed in 1470) By Dr. Sally...
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George, sixth or early seventh century, encaustic on wood,...
Fetteresso Old Inn (now a private house) / Photo by Russ Hamer, Wikimedia Commons Exploring the thousand-year...
Pompeii’s monuments include the Arch of Tiberius. (Francesco Lastrucci) Examining the development and growth of ancient urban...
Wooden Ship-Cart Model, late 13th–early 12th century B.C. Wood with traces of paint, 5 3/16 × 15...
Hammurabi (standing), depicted as receiving his royal insignia from Shamash. Hammurabi holds his hands over his mouth as a...
Ariel view of the destroyed reactor, 1986 Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly military conscripts and reservists,...
By David Pietrusza / 07.08.2018 Historian Sunday morning, July 14th, 1918. It’s Bastille Day—and, somewhere in France,...
The first rejection was George Washington’s nomination of John Rutledge to be Chief Justice in 1795. By Dr....
Founders did not intend on keeping a standing army beyond the War of Independence. By Dr. Christopher H....
An image uploaded on July 4, 2018, by the author (or authors) of the “QAnon” posts on...
Family members pray in front of a Buddhist statue near the cave where 12 boys and their...
Anglo-Saxon burial site at the Barrow Clump, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. / Photo by Rexfeatures What is the source...
The American River Ganges, Harper’s Weekly, September 1871 by Thomas Nast. The original image of Nast’s most...
Procession de la Ligue 1590 Carnavalet. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Desmond M. Clarke / 01.16.2016 Late Professor...
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte III Rarely in history has a country so blindly, maliciously and relentlessly turned against...
Hagia Sophia / Photo by Arild Vågen, Wikimedia Commons It wasn’t Europe that gave us our idea of...
The Great Wall of China, built 221 BCE-1664 CE. / Photo by Emily Mark, Creative Commons Mark of...
Image via learnerlog.org, Creative Commons Out of Africa and gradually stretching around the globe. By Emma Groeneveld...