Liberty leads the people / Wikimedia Commons Exploring the artistic expressions of the French Revolution. Edited by...
Month: September 2018
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, 17 June, 1775, by John Trumbull...
When examining the historical development of society, perhaps the most determining factor is education. By Abigail E....
Ratha Yatra Festival in Puri, India on James Fergusson’s painting / Public Domain Very little is known...
Tauroctony statue / Photo by Carole Raddato, Creative Commons Mithraism was a mystery cult in the Roman...
A wall of the triclinium, traditionally interpreted to represent the stages of initiation to the cult. Silenus...
Véronique Pagnier, Stanhope Press from Fontaine de Vaucluse, France, Creative Commons Share Alike (2011). One of the...
Let us remember we are not only participating in history, but also potentially creating it. By Dale...
Fear of facing society’s ostracism for failure to pay them back has left borrowers alienated and trapped...
Night of August 4th, abolition of feudality and fiscal privileges, by Léopold Morice / Photo by Teofilo,...
Japanese imperial family / Wikimedia Commons The collapse of aristocratic rule ushered in a new age of...
A 15th century CE painting by Jean Fouquet depicting the Second Crusaders (1147-49 CE), led by Louis...
Pope Urban’s motives in preaching the First Crusade are unclear. By Sarah Hough Dickinson College Pope Urban’s...
The divide between right and left seems unbridgeable, presenting long-term challenges to the American government’s ability to...
Political parties thrive when they are able to manage the media and effectively promote their candidates, leaders,...
Walter Lippmann / Public Domain The interwar period was a moment of deep crisis everywhere. By Dr....
Handscroll, ink and color on silk, 24.4 x 343.8 cm / British Library Exploring some of the...
A fresco by Cesare Maccari (1840-1919 CE) depicting Roman senator Cicero (106-43 BCE) denouncing the conspirator Catiline...
Illustration by Sean Quinn Urban areas present an interesting challenge — and a big opportunity — for...
Skull of a Homo sapiens (a.k.a. modern human) individual, on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural...
This hand was discovered in articulation and all bones are represented except for the pisiform. / Photo...
History tells us that midterm elections are bad — sometimes very bad — for the party that...
Read my lips (and forehead). Wikimedia Commons Abraham Lincoln brought commercial photographers on board. By Dr. Joanna...
Wikimedia Commons It is essential to move beyond electoral politics to understand the way the far right...
Police disperse protesters outside MIT’s nuclear missile laboratories, November 1969. / MIT Museum Locating Chomsky’s linguistics and...
The University of Glasgow / Photo by Mike Peel, Wikimedia Commons Charlemagne realized that his empire needed...
Mandeville’s Travels was, for more than two centuries after its appearance in c.1356, of enormous influence and...
Executives from the financial institutions who received TARP funds, Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein, JPMorgan...
In the mid-16th century, Elizabeth I’s government came up with a series of measures to deter “divers...
A Maitraka copper plate / Wikimedia Commons Archaeological evidence suggests that copper was first used between 8,000...