A Tournament Contest from Tournament Book, about 1560–70, unknown illuminator, made in Germany. The J. Paul Getty...
Month: August 2018
It revolutionized the art of portrait-making. By Afzal Ibrahim / 07.22.2018 Introduction A question often asked –...
Marianne is the embodiment of the French Republic. Marianne represents the permanent values that found her citizens’...
The Massacre of the Triumvirate, by Antoine Caron, 1566 / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons Roman eyes were...
Sen. John McCain, seen in 2014, told his Senate colleagues last year: “I suspect they’ll find we...
The Entrance of Cornelius Sulla into Rome, where he was appointed as “Dictator” in the First Century...
The Tarpeian Rock / Photo by Lalupa, Wikimedia Commons The world quickened and mutated, and the Republic...
Photo by Stephen Bugno, Flickr, Creative Commons Conserving the landscape around Angkor Wat in the face of...
By Dr. Barbara Watson Andaya Professor, Asian Studies Program University of Hawaii at Manoa Introduction Southeast Asia...
The Mongol Empire expanded through brutal raids and invasions, but also established routes of trade and technology...
From The Rurik Dynasty Exhibition / Visit St. Petersbug The Varangians ruled the medieval state of Kievan Rus...
Antonine baths ruins / Photo by Aymen, Wikimedia Commons The Carthaginian assault on their Numidian neighbours gave...
Brysa Hill ruins / Creative Commons The had an international blend of skills and cultures was a...
FDR in Brazil / Wikimedia Commons Roosevelt won his second term in a landslide, but that did...
Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law, August 14, 1935 / Wikimedia Commons Roosevelt began his...
Siamese ambassador Kosa Pan presents King Narai’s letter to Louis XIV’s court at Versailles, 1686 / Wikimedia...
A representation of Draco at the library of the Supreme Court of the United States / Photo...
Prague, Czech Republic. Credit: Fleetingpix, Flickr/Creative Commons Politicized revisions of the past help antidemocratic leaders justify their...
A fresco by Cesare Maccari (1840-1919 CE) depicting Roman senator Cicero (106-43 BCE) denouncing the conspirator Catiline...
Phoenician ship Carved on the face of a sarcophagus, 2nd century CE / NMB, Wikimedia Commons Although...
The country’s most vulnerable populations were the hardest hit. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 08.27.2018 Historian...
While it is misleading to view the stock market crash of 1929 as the sole cause of...
Maroons ambush British troops on the Dromilly Estate, Jamaica / British Library, Public Domain Jamaican Maroons fought...
Convictions under the Buggery Act 1533 were punishable by death / British Library, Public Domain Exploring three...
The Rape of Lucretia by Titian (1490-1576 CE). Lucretia was raped by Sextus, son of the Roman...
Wikimedia Commons Through his Cyropaedia, Cyrus’s notions of human rights influenced the U.S. Constitution—Thomas Jefferson owned two...
Although William Howard Taft was Theodore Roosevelt’s hand-picked successor to the presidency, he was less inclined to...
Roosevelt believed that the United States had the right and the obligation to be the policeman of...
By Rachel Quednau / 10.08.2015 Among the many propaganda campaigns executed during World War II was this...
A Soviet anti-racism stamp from 1960 features a black child in typical blackface imagery / Wikimedia Commons...