Byzantine Fibula, ca. 430 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) By Rebecca Mir Grady / 08.08.2015 Art Historian Fibulae...
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By Lee Rowland, J.D. / 03.09.2018 Senior Staff Attorney ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project The year...
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Detail of a corner panel from Mosaic Floor with a Bear Hunt, A.D. 300–400, Roman, from near Baiae,...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.03.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Communication: History and Forms Introduction Before we...
President Lyndon Johnson signs a gun-control law in 1968—passed with the N.R.A / Public Domain Edited by...
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By Dr. Kurt Von Daacke Professor of History and Assistant Dean University of Virginia Between June 19...
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Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat, 1793, oil on canvas, 165 x 64.96 cm (Royal Museum of Fine Arts...
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This mosaic from the Antakya Archaeological Museum, Hatay Province, Turkey dates to the 2nd Century CE and depicts a black African...
For 45 years, Susan B. Anthony traveled the U.S. relentlessly, stumping for women’s rights. She endured ridicule,...
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Detail from Thomas Patch’s etching Laurence Sterne, alias Tristram Shandy: “And When Death Himself Knocked at My Door”(1769)...
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