Dr. Benjamin Rush The first attacks on Rush followed the outbreak of a devastating yellow fever epidemic...
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Jefferson’s faith in free presses was ultimately faith in the people with a moral sensibility sufficient to...
Typical imperial Inca trapezoid windows from the sacred precinct of Coricancha, Cuzco, c. 1438 CE / Photo...
Sunrise over Machu Picchu / Photo by Allen Schmidt, Wikimedia Commons Forgotten for centuries by the outside...
Americans have long differed over whether patriotism should be pushed in their nation’s schools. vepar5/www.shutterstock.com As debates...
Ancient Roman inscription from Marseille (France) / Photo by Rossignol Benoît, Musée Calvet, Wikimedia Commons Quaestor to...
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi / Photo by tamara semina, Wikimedia Commons The fact that the...
Original designs for battleship HMS Dreadnought, produced by the British Royal Navy in 1905 / British Library,...
A knight fighting a dragon, 15th-century woodcut / Rauner Special Collections Library, Wikimedia Commons The emergence of...
Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, tempera and oil on oak panel, 82.2 x 60 cm...
Artwork page for ‘The Cholmondeley Ladies’, Unknown artist, Britain, c.1600-10 / Tate Britain In the Middle Ages,...
Cicero Denounces Catiline, fresco by Cesare Maccari, 1882-1888 / Wikimedia Commons Examining Cicero’s views on the construction...
Bust carved by by Victor Wager from a model by Paul Montford, University of Western Australia, Crawley,...
Photo by Elvert Barnes, Flickr, Creative Commons The free exercise of religion doesn’t include a right to...
Inscription under the statue of Mary Dyer at the Massachusetts Statehouse, Boston. Note that the place given of...
John F. Paramino’s relief sculpture is the Founders Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. It shows Boston’s first resident,...
Shutterstock Critics like that anonymous op-ed writer have no problem with how Trump’s actually hurting people. They...
South transept of Tournai Cathedral, Belgium, 12th century / Wikimedia Commons The Romanesque style appeared to be...
Carolingian gatehouse, Lorsch Abbey (Torhalle Kloster Lorsch) / Photo by Warrox, Wikimedia Commons The Carolingian Dynasty is...
Forum, looking toward Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii Pompeii was not always a Roman town. By the mid-sixth century...
This ancient Greek fresco, known as The Toreador, was found on the Greek island of Crete. The...
“Look beneath the surface of just about any progressive cause — voting rights, prison reform, income inequality, data privacy,...
Battle of the Somme by Muirhead Bone, official British Wart Artist, 1916 / British Library, Public Domain...
This photograph was taken by an official British war photographer, Thomas Keith Aitken, in July 1918. It...
Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay, engraving by William Miller after J M W Turner (Rawlinson 739),...
Procopius of Caesarea, Creative Commons It has been a subject of much debate what Procopius actually thought...
The uniqueness of Hijras lies not only in their existence beyond social structure but also in Indian...
The systems created in Ancient India by Kautilya (above), a ruthless technocratic economist, were mitigated by Ashoka,...
Numerous sandals were among the many objects Ancestral Puebloans deposited in Tularosa Cave (shown here) in present-day...
The Nicoleños, an Indigenous group that lived on San Nicolas Island, used a multistep process to fashion...