Palatine Chapel, Creative Commons Charlemagne hailed from Aachen, where the 1743 Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen Treaty may have created fireworks...
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Terracotta amphora, c490 BCE. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Despite a wealth of ancient writings, archaeological...
Science is one thread of culture – and entertainment, including graphic books, can reflect that. ‘The Dialogues,’ by...
Waterwheel, Darley Mill Centre / Wikimedia Commons Exploring the idea that we must think of technology in much...
The symbol of the Holy Roman Empire / Wikimedia Commons The evolution of the election in the...
Pnyx hill in Athens by Qwqchris. / Wikimedia Commons In the matter of the dēmokratia (‘People-Power’) that the Greeks invented (the...
Arms and armors of a typical noble Frankish warrior, 5th-6th century / Photo by Altaipanther, Germanisches Nationalmuseum,...
The Celtic tribes were each ruled by their own kings, queens, or chiefs, and were famed for...
The fear of prostitution and female promiscuity peaked during World War I. By Laura Lammasniemi / 07.28.2016 Teaching...
Boydell’s Collection of Prints illustrating Shakespeare’s works / British Library, Public Domain Did Shakespeare’s contemporaries believe in witches? Looking...
EPB/35960/A: François Mauriceau, The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed...
View from north-east of Reims Cathedral (High Gothic) / Photo by G.Garitan, Wikimedia Commons By Valerie Spanswick /...
Alcibades being taught by Socrates, by François-André Vincent, 1776 / Musée Fabre, Wikimedia Commons Socrates’ most famous students before...
The rise of Zeus. By E.M. Berens / 05.21.2014 Cronus (Saturn) Cronus was the god of time...
Protesters hold up signs with pictures of the victims of neo-Nazi terror group National Socialist Underground in...
This portrays the story of a dispute between Saint Dominic and the Cathars in which the books...
In the early summer of 1942, Hans Scholl and Alex Schmorell – later joined by Sophie Scholl...
Tristan and Isolde, by Herbert James Draper, 1901 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Stephen Robertson Professor of History...
The medieval – and modern – Catholic practice of consecrating women as virgins who has lost their...
The battle of Leuctra was fought in 371 BCE and represents a turning point in Greek history....
Modern scholars have debated the exact nature of the Spartan krypteia, a group of young men who...
Creative Commons He would earn the name Scarface and lead one of the most notorious crime syndicates in history. By...
Seduction, propaganda, and ultimate power and control. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 08.05.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief...
Edinburgh Castle / Photo by Becks, Wikimedia Commons The escheator was the local official responsible for upholding...
15th Century medieval marketplace / Wikimedia Commons Like many European concepts, the Middle Ages is one which...
Nero didn’t really fiddle while Rome burned – he wasn’t even there. Examining the link between societal crisis...
The Julio Claudian Ravenna Releie / Creative Commons Descriptions of the diseases of some of these emperors...
British Vickers machine gun crew during the Battle of Menin Road Ridge, World War I, photo by Ernest Brooks / Public...
Public Domain How did World War One break out? Professor David Stevenson closely examines the three stages...
Blessing from the Medicine Man, Howard Terpning®, 2011 / The Greenwich Workshop, Inc. Native American concepts of health...