Ancient Athens practically invented Western culture, but xenophobia led to the collapse of the Empire. Flickr/SantiMB The ancients...
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If I believe it is raining outside… The Umbrella (1883) by Marie Bashkirtseff. Courtesy the State Russian Museum/Wikipedia ‘It is wrong...
Craig Cloutier/Flickr/Creative Commons By Dr. Stephen Law / 12.15.2015 Philosopher and Author Centre for Inquiry Human beings...
Bundesarchiv Bild 119-0779 / German Federal Archive, Wikimedia Commons The democratic Weimar Republic fell with dizzying speed. By...
Andrew Dickson explores the vibrant, experimental and precarious culture that developed in Weimar Germany in the 1920s...
‘Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur,’ by Maurycy Gottlieb, 1878 In the 1870s European Judaism...
Photo by bl3w, Flickr, Creative Commons Tracing the notion of ekplexis in Greek rhetoric and the connections in etymology, myth,...
In Ancient Greek texts, the king Lycaon is punished for misdeeds by being turned into a wolf....
This image shows the machine works of Richard Hartmann in Chemnitz, Germany. Hartmann was one of the most successful entrepreneurs...
Hutterite family 1588 Anabaptists constituted one of the most persecuted and most mobile religious populations of the...
An overview of the main phases of the history of globalization, as well as of radical structural breaks....
Palazzo di Medici-Riccardi / Creative Commons The state was merely a product of these guilds with institutions...
Stenbock photographed in St Petersburg by Frederick Hollyer, 1886 / Public Domain With his extravagant dress, entourage...
Brodie castle, north Scotland. Albert de Bruijn, CC BY-SA How medieval spires and snarling gargoyles went out of fashion and then made a spectacular...
Moctezuma I in the Codex Mendoza / Wikimedia Commons Moctezuma brought social, economical, and political reform to strengthen...
16th century portrait of Atahualpa by an unknown artist from the Cusco School / Ethnological Museum of Berlin, Wikimedia...
Portrait by Jacopo Pontormo; the laurel branch (il Broncone) was a symbol used also by his heirs /...
The entrance of Sulla into Rome / Creative Commons Factions seeking to manipulate the system for control....
Anglican Dean of Brisbane Dr Peter Catt is leading a sanctuary offer to asylum-seekers facing deportation to...
‘Metics’ in ancient Athens could also refer to immigrants invited by citizens and admitted on an otherwise non-discretionary...
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Congressional midterm election spending will likely hit a record $5 billion. But the spending masks the main problem with US campaign financing: who...
Lars Ø Ramberg, “Palast des Zweifels” on the roof of the Palast der Republik, January 26. –...
Vercingetorix, atop his horse, surrenders to Julius Caesar. Painting by Lionel Royer. | Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons...
The “recent acceleration of voter suppression – fuelled by public fear, sanctioned by the judiciary, and supported...
The documentary Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook can be streamed online for free through Nov. 13, 2018. (Photo: Rigged) “The...
Decimation in Beaver’s Roman Military Punishments, by William Hogarth, c.1725 / Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wikimedia Commons Punishment by...
Kleroterion: This device was used for the jury selection system in Athens. Bronze identification tickets were inserted...
The Acropolis of Athens. Dominating the acropolis is the Parthenon, built between 447 and 432 BCE in the Age of Pericles, and...
The Athens Acropolis as seen from the Court of Cassation (Areopagus, i.e. the “Stone, or Hill, of Ares”)...
Boston Almshouse Meeting the eligibility requirements of the Poor Laws was not easy in pre-1935 America. By...