North Korean missile platform / Photo by Stefan Krasowski, Flickr, Creative Commons There  are powerful reasons for North...
Month: October 2018
Examining the rise of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 10.08.2018 Historian Brewminate...
Examining the roles of Germany, Italy, and Japan in the Second World War. Edited by Matthew A....
Aztec calendar / Anthropology Museum, Photo by Rengarajang, Wikimedia Commons The Aztecs dominated the Valley of Mexico...
Tikal Mayan ruins in Guatemala. Credit – chensiyuan, WIkimedia Commons Geology relates to interdisciplinary or seemingly unconnected topics,...
America’s founding fathers read intently Gibbon’s account of how Augustus eviscerated the Roman republic’s remaining premises even...
The mausoleum of Augustus in Rome / Photo by ryarwood, Wikimedia Commons “I found a city built...
Ostraka for Ostracism / Museum of the Ancient Agora, Wikimedia Commons Although the Greek city-states differed in...
This copy of a medieval manuscript illustration shows a peasant using a very modest version of the...
Medieval townsfolk needed very different sorts of technologies than did rural farmers, and they eagerly adopted tools...
Why can’t we just quit Columbus? He’s a myth. And we love our myths. By Rick Shenkman / 10.03.2018...
Christopher Columbus is depicted here in his only state-sponsored, albeit non-authenticated, portrait, painted by Alejo Fernández between...
On August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain with intentions to find a new route...
Suboxone, a medicine to treat opioid addiction, helps people struggling with substance abuse by blocking their cravings...
Hippocrates, the “father of medicine” / Public Domain By the 5th century BCE, there were attempts to identify...
Dated to the New Kingdom (c. 1570 – c. 1069 BCE), and specifically to c. 1200 BCE, the text...
A traveler reads a newspaper. AP Photo/Julio Cortez Researchers set out across four cities to ask the...
Look at us! / Photo by Lewis Minor, Flickr, Creative Commons People have long used media to...
Despite being largely forgotten today, Lowell Thomas was a pioneering journalist of the 20th century who reshaped...
Mexican soldiers killed up to 300 student protesters and arrested 1,000 more on Oct. 3, 1968, in...
AcequÃa del Camino Inca entrada a la Huaca de los Monos / Photo by Johnattan Rupire, Wikimedia...
A model reconstruction of the Temple Mayor at the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. In use from the 14th to early 16th century...
In the second half of the fourteenth century, petitioners hoping to secure royal grace began addressing the...
The peristyle (courtyard) of Diocletian’s palace The reforms of Diocletian and Constantine “preserved” the empire, but changed...
What do fascists do before they manage to establish a fascist dictatorship? By Marc Brodine / 01.12.2017...
The March on Rome: From left to right – unknown, Benito Mussolini, Cesare Maria de Vecchi and...
The Stadio dei Marmi, part of the Foro Mussolini, a sports complex in Rome built between 1928...
Image by Dr. Case, Flickr, Creative Commons Léonie de Jonge (PhD candidate in the Department of Politics...
Tea Party protest at the National Mall on September 12, 2009 / Photo by NYyankees51, Wikimedia Commons...
“The Lucy Furnaces in 1886.” Carnegie Steel Company, Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania / Wikimedia Commons As the United...