Boydell’s Collection of Prints illustrating Shakespeare’s works / British Library, Public Domain Rhetoric was a much-valued skill...
Month: August 2018
Floats for the Kanda Festival, 1843 / Photo by Daderot, Edo-Tokyo Museum, Wikimedia Commons Looking at Japan’s...
Noria Waterwheel / Wikimedia Commons The fundamental processes of agriculture, pottery making, and cloth making, plus language,...
The censorship board. George Creel is seated at far right. Harris & Ewing/Library of Congress An executive...
Horace Greeley, between about 1860 and 1865. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration It’s easy to think...
Early desire to remove George Washington as the Continental Army’s Commander-in-Chief. By Dr. John Buescher Historian You...
Illustration of The Liberty Tree in Boston. From A History of Boston, the metropolis of Massachusetts, from...
Statue of Themistocles in Piraeus, Greece By David Van Dyk / 08.17.2016 “My boy, you will be...
A detail from the frieze of the Treasury of the Siphians at Delphi depicting the Gods fighting...
Nordic Sámi (Saami) people in Sapmi (Lapland) in front of two Lavvo Tents / Photo by Granbergs...
New DNA analysis reveals that, before their mysterious disappearance, the Norse colonies of Greenland had a “near...
Rethinking his initial impressions after being fed “a diet of Gandhi hagiographies”. By Dr. Arica L. Coleman...
Mohandas K. Gandhi / Wikimedia Commons The Indian leader saw nonviolence as an active and powerful thing—not...
The Mallikarjuna temple on the left (originally called Trailokesvara temple) was built by queen Trailokyamahadevi (queen of...
The Coronation of Charlemagne, fresco by Raphael at the Apostolic Palace, c.1516 / Wikimedia Commons The problem...
The Coronation of Charlemagne, by Friedrich Kaulbach / Wikimedia Commons Today he is regarded as the founding...
“Roosevelt’s and the other founders’ words and actions make clear that they envisioned Social Security to be...
MIT neuroscientists have found evidence that the brain’s ability to control what it’s thinking about relies on...
The theory that education protects against Alzheimer’s disease has been given further weight by new research from...
Looking at the botanical and zoological basis of some of these elixirs to find out whether they’d...
Still Life with Fruit, Oysters and a Porcelain Bowl, Abraham Mignon, 1660 – 1679. / Rijksmuseum Medieval...
Image by Ancient Origins, Wikimedia Commons Ultimately, there is only one warrior culture. Its evolution and transformation...
Relief scene of Roman legionaries marching, from the Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, Italy, 2nd century CE...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt, and Premier Joseph Stalin / Library of Congress Franklin Roosevelt...
Click image to enlarge The years between the First and Second World Wars were politically and economically...
Krak des Chevaliers, Syria / Photo by Bernard Gagnon, Wikimedia Commons The 13th century saw a number...
Saladin / Wikimedia Commons In July 1096 Kilij Arslan learned that an enormous throng of Franks (Franj)...
First lines of Beowulf from the damaged Nowell Codex Old English arose from the set of varieties...
This bilingual papyrus containing magical spells and recipes dates from the early third century A.D. and is...
Ethnic Karens perform with a traditional dance during the Karen New Year celebration festival in Yangon January...