Ammonite fossil / Photo by Becks, Wikimedia Commons Nineteenth-century England saw a major revolution in the scientific...
Year: 2018
By Brad Bowman / 05.17.2018 Sosland Family Graduate Fellow in the History of Science Harvard University In...
An Aztec ceremonial knife with a cedarwood handle and flint blade. The figure of the handle is covered in...
A map indicating the maximum extent of the Aztec civilization which flourished between c. 1345 and 1521 CE in...
Getty Images The deadly shooting at a Maryland newspaper is a reminder that some Americans have come...
Plato surrounded by students in his Academy in Athens. Mosaic (detail) from the Villa of T. Siminius...
Achilles at the Court of King Lycomedes.  The sarcophagus had been sawed up to four plates which were...
Consider two terminals of American architecture, one positive, one negative, in an epicenter of global capital flows:...
It started with a small dinner party. By Dr. Suzy Evans, J.D. / 06.29.2018 Historian and Attorney Although historians...
MALI – APRIL 01: Libraries of the desert: rediscovery and restoration of ancient Arab manuscripts in Bouj...
By Dr. Robert Davis / 02.15.2018 Professor Emeritus of History The Ohio State University In the early...
By Dr. Bruce Gordon / 10.27.2017 Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History Yale Divinity School Yale University...
William Tyndale / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. David Lyle Jeffrey / 10.14.2017 Distinguished Professor of Literature and...
The head of the suffragist parade in Washington, 1913. (Wikimedia Commons) They fought for the right to vote,...
Did the Roman arenas of political conflict support the common good? Trey Ratcliff/flickr, Creative Commons History offers countless examples...
Teotihuacan, 300 BCE Teotihuacan, located in the Basin of Central Mexico, was the largest, most influential, and...
A mask of jadeite from the Olmec civilization of the Gulf coast, Mesoamerica, 900-500 BCE. Provenance: Rio Pesquero, Mexico....
A portion of the 2nd century BCE Basilica of the Roman town of Pompeii, the oldest surviving example of such...
Polychrome relief of Kagemni in his own mastaba, Saqqara, Egypt. Kagemni was a vizier of pharaohs Djedkare Isesi...
Artist depiction of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. By Mopic/shutterstock.com An asteroid on a collision course with Earth is inevitable. Astronomer...
The coils winding facility building in France, where a global effort to build the ITER fusion energy...
In tumultuous times like these, they have trouble gaining traction, as this example from the American Revolution...
Creative Commons Between monism, pluralism and particularism – then pluralism is much the most plausible of the three....
Don’t aim for completion / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Kieran Setiya / 01.26.2018 Professor of Philosophy Massachusetts...
A model of the agora of Athens at its maximum extension during the 2nd century CE. (Agora Museum, Athens) / Photo...
A map of the political structure of Greece in the Archaic Age (ca. 750 – 490 BC). / Photo...
Detail from an image showing fireworks in Hamburg to celebrate the coronation of Emperor Franz I. Stephan...
Henry Morton Stanley as pictured in the frontispiece to Volume 1 of his In Darkest Africa (1890) – Internet Archive...
Luca Signorelli, The Damned Cast into Hell, 1499-1504, fresco, 23′ wide (San Brizio chapel, Orvieto Cathedral, Orvieto, Italy)...
By Dr. Joseph Daubin / 08.09.2015 Distinguished University Professor of History The Graduate Center City University of...