Photo by Tim Graham, Getty Images The opponents of majority rule in the U.S. have been laser-focused on rigging the rules of...
Month: November 2018
The contributions and influence of South Asian artists, poets, intellectuals and sportspeople within British arts, sciences, law, and...
On August 1, 1714, Queen Anne died, and the orderly succession of Hanover’s Elector Georg Ludwig proclaimed him...
Moses Mendelssohn (left) discusses theology with Johann Kaspar Lavater and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, c.1800...
This medieval manuscript lies at the center of a group of books of hours produced by artists of...
In the event of a nuclear attack on the UK, would the NHS cope or would it...
The British Empire stood in the way. Not until the late 1950s did the US finally become...
How have historians interpreted the impact of the failed impeachment attempt of Andrew Johnson? Andrew Johnson, the...
Detail of John Trumbull’s painting depicting the Committee of Five presenting their draft of the Declaration of...
The unprecedented danger that Donald Trump poses to liberty and basic human decency in America. By Gennady Stolyarov II...
King Lear and Cordelia, by Benjamin West (1793) / Folger Shakespeare Library, Wikimedia Commons Considering how the Fool...
After the death of Tiberius, the problem of the succession presented to the senate was not an...
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. Czech psychiatrist Kurt Freund found that...
Magnus Hirschfeld, on the right, sits with his partner, Tao Li, at the fourth conference of the...
In the 1850s, smallpox vaccination became compulsory in Britain. But the influence of anti-vaccination campaigners meant outbreaks...
A combination of poverty and “plague orders” in 1665 trapped many in situations that meant almost certain...
Woman or goddess (“La Parisienne”) from the Camp-Stool fresco, c.1350 B.C.E., western wing of the palace at...
Snake Goddess from the palace at Knossos, c. 1600 B.C.E., faience, 29.5 cm high (Archaeological Museum of...
Anti-Apartheid protest in the 1980s are mere snapshots of time in the long journey towards equality, paved...
An orange flag with the traditional Indian swastika on top of ancient Hindu temples in the Himalayas. (Shutterstock)...
Jean-Baptiste Belley, Deputy of Saint-Domingue and French National Convention member (1793-97) with a bust of Abbé Raynal...
Quranic script from the 8th or 9th century. Courtesy Wikipedia Al-Farabi drew on a rich variety of Hellenic...
Ancient remains at Thula / Creative Commons Following conquest by the Umayyid caliphate, Islam rose fairly quickly. Curated/Reviewed...
Rock Palace, Yemen / Photo by Rod Waddington, Wikimedia Commons Yemen is one of the oldest centers of civilization in...
The end of the Weimar Republic. Adolf Hitler greets President Paul von Hindenburg, in Potsdam, Germany, on...
Reichstag Building / Creative Commons Reconsidering traditional assumptions about the connection between the First World War and the...
Political polarization remains a major obstacle to national action on global climate change. Originally published by Climate...
The same hate-filled rhetoric that created the circumstances for recent violence also stokes ferocious attacks on climate...
Taming of the Shrew, 1809, by Washington Allston / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Public Domain In Shakespeare’s...
Profile of William Shakespeare, c.1793 / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile:...