Convict labor at the State Lime Grinding Plant, Virginia / From Virginia; Its Agricultural and Industrial Resources, 1914...
Month: October 2018
Everett Historical / Shutterstock The 1918 pandemic became known as the “Spanish flu” or the “Spanish Lady.” By...
Elmina Castle also known as St. George of the Mine Castle in Ghana / Photo by Damien Halleux...
Vincent of Beauvais (1190 – 1264?) was a French scholar, encyclopedist and Dominican Friar. / Public Domain...
Judas Maccabeus prevailing over the Seleucids, painting by Gustav Dore (1832-1883) / Wikimedia Commons Judas Maccabeus’ death...
Ruins of the ancient Great Synagogue at Capernaum (or Kfar Nahum) on the shore of the Lake...
When memory and history meet, sometimes irony is the result. By Dr. Donald Yacovone / 10.28.2018 Fellow...
Neither Jefferson nor any Founding Father ought to be treated as statues—i.e., “creatures of legend more than history.”...
A miniature from en:Grandes Chroniques de France depicting the expulsion of Jews from France in 1182. / Diaspora Museum, Tel...
Modern reconstruction of what the Second Temple would have looked like after its renovation during the reign of Herod I...
Aegeus at right consults the Pythia or oracle of Delphi. Vase 440-430 BC. He was told “Do not loosen the bulging mouth of...
The limestone Pyramidion of Ramose, from the top of the tomb of the ‘Necropolis Scribe’. Scenes on all four...
Beehive in a Floral Wreath (detail), 1730, Maria Sibylla Merian. The Getty Research Institute, 89-B10813 Maria Sibylla Merian...
Portrait of Margaret Cavendish in the frontispiece to her Grounds of Natural Philosophy (1668). The image is also used...
Of Education is Milton’s contribution to contemporary debate about methods of education. By Dr. Thomas H. Luxon Professor...
Bronze statue of Geoffrey Chaucer The world about which Chaucer wrote was a very different world from...
Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, recent site of gunpowder factory. / Photo by Cheungkkanthony, Wikimedia Commons Gunpowder was...
This elaborate set of ritual bronzes, consisting of an altar table and thirteen wine vessels, illustrates the...
Mass psychology and nationalism as as a form of degeneration, or a barbarous and cruel regression after the Great...
‘House of the dragoman [translator] of British Consulate Basra’, 1906 (IOR/L/PS/20/C260, f 27), Public Domain Wilfrid Malleson’s...
Danaë, 1530, Correggio (Antonio Allegri). Oil on canvas; 74 3/16 × 86 13/16 × 4 1/2 in....
Coronation of the Virgin Altarpiece by Guariento di Arpo, 1344, tempera and gold leaf on panel, Norton...
Research shows that a people’s knowledge of their family history correlates to higher self-esteem, lower anxiety, stronger familial cohesion,...
To an anthropologist, it means the patterns of human behaviour, and all that that entails. 01.01.2018 Introduction The...
Archaeological site of Chavín de Huántar (photo: Julio Martinich, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The artistic style seen in stone...
Despite the extensive study of Moche iconography, the motivations behind the practice remain poorly understood By Christina Taggart...
British Library, Public Domain Examining how drug literature—writing on drugs by drug users—has consistently resorted to Gothic conventions,...
Fragment of a Tomb Painting with Seated Woman Holding a Blue Lotus, ca. 1539-1425 B.C.E. / Photo...
Detail of a relief of the eastern stairs of the Apadana at Persepolis (Takht-e Jamshid), Iran /...
Impression of a Sumerian cylinder seal from the Early Dynastic IIIa period (ca. 2600 BC). Persons drinking...