Ammonite fossil / Photo by Becks, Wikimedia Commons Nineteenth-century England saw a major revolution in the scientific...
Month: July 2018
By Brad Bowman / 05.17.2018 Sosland Family Graduate Fellow in the History of Science Harvard University In...
An Aztec ceremonial knife with a cedarwood handle and flint blade. The figure of the handle is covered in...
A map indicating the maximum extent of the Aztec civilization which flourished between c. 1345 and 1521 CE in...
Getty Images The deadly shooting at a Maryland newspaper is a reminder that some Americans have come...
Plato surrounded by students in his Academy in Athens. Mosaic (detail) from the Villa of T. Siminius...
Achilles at the Court of King Lycomedes. The sarcophagus had been sawed up to four plates which were...
Consider two terminals of American architecture, one positive, one negative, in an epicenter of global capital flows:...
It started with a small dinner party. By Dr. Suzy Evans, J.D. / 06.29.2018 Historian and Attorney Although historians...
MALI – APRIL 01: Libraries of the desert: rediscovery and restoration of ancient Arab manuscripts in Bouj...
By Dr. Robert Davis / 02.15.2018 Professor Emeritus of History The Ohio State University In the early...
By Dr. Bruce Gordon / 10.27.2017 Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History Yale Divinity School Yale University...
William Tyndale / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. David Lyle Jeffrey / 10.14.2017 Distinguished Professor of Literature and...
The head of the suffragist parade in Washington, 1913. (Wikimedia Commons) They fought for the right to vote,...
Did the Roman arenas of political conflict support the common good? Trey Ratcliff/flickr, Creative Commons History offers countless examples...
Teotihuacan, 300 BCE Teotihuacan, located in the Basin of Central Mexico, was the largest, most influential, and...
A mask of jadeite from the Olmec civilization of the Gulf coast, Mesoamerica, 900-500 BCE. Provenance: Rio Pesquero, Mexico....
A portion of the 2nd century BCE Basilica of the Roman town of Pompeii, the oldest surviving example of such...
Polychrome relief of Kagemni in his own mastaba, Saqqara, Egypt. Kagemni was a vizier of pharaohs Djedkare Isesi...