By Dr. Christian Marx / 09.28.2012 Professor of Economic History University of Trier Abstract This article discusses...
Year: 2018
Waldseemüller (Martin Waldseemüller) map from 1507 is the first map to include the name “America” and the first...
By Dr. Ioannis Papadogiannakis Lecturer in Patristics King’s College London Earth and sea are freed from their...
Keystone in the Shape of a Foliate Face, about 1225–36, made in Stymphalia, Greece. Stone, probably sandstone,...
A protest to mark the first anniversary of the Delhi gang rape, in New Delhi, 2013. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi...
Photo by Alan Levine, Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. Elise Crull / 02.02.2018 Assistant Professor in History...
By Dr. Don C. Skemer / 10.14.2016 Curator of Manuscripts Rare Books & Special Collections Department Princeton...
Detail from Jan van Neck’s Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Frederick Ruysch (1683), showing Ruysch in the centre with an...
Monumental funerary vases from the Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, now on display at the Getty Villa....
The Oracle, 1880, Camillo Miola (Biacca). Oil on canvas, 42 1/2 x 56 1/4 in. The J....
The Ancestors of Christ: David, Solomon – Michelangelo By Krista M.B. / 07.22.2017 Historian According to legend,...
Photograph Joyce had made in Zurich, 1915, and sent to Michael Healy, Nora’s uncle. Source: Beinecke Rare...
As the site of the baptism of Jesus Christ, the Jordan River is the source of all...
By Dr. Elizabeth Kramer Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Music History University of West Georgia Introduction and...
This sarcophagus depicts a variety of ancient musical instruments, including the tympanum (drum), flute, and kymbala (cymbals)....
Relief panel with The Spoils of Jerusalem Being Brought into Rome, Arch of Titus, Rome, after 81 C.E.,...
Apollo Crowning Himself (detail), 1781–82, Antonio Canova. Marble, 33 3/8 in. high. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 95.SA.71....
By Lalita Kaplish / 03.02.2016 Wed Editor Wellcome Library George Shuttleworth was a psychiatrist and an asylum...
St Lukes Hospital, London: patients case book 1912-1916. Wellcome Library reference: H64/B06/015. What did it mean for a...
The Execution of Admiral Byng, 14 March 1757 / Royal Museums Greenwich By Dr. Joe Krulder /...
How many times do we wonder, ‘what’s the right thing to do’? Ed Yourdon from New York City,...
Detail of Colossal Krater from Altamura, about 350 B.C., Greek, made in Apulia, South Italy. Terracotta, 63 in. high...
An 1894 cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper criticizes American newspapers’ elasticity with the truth. Library of Congress By...
Detail, Otto I presenting the Cathedral of Magdeburg, 962–968, Ottonian, from the Cathedral of Magdeburg, probably made in...
The skeleton of the teenage girl, and the remnants of her burial, as discovered by Cambridge University...
What if it wasn’t back to the drawing board every year for a new flu shot? Andrew Kelly/Reuters...
Plantation Høgensborg on St Croix in the former Danish West Indies (1833) / Wikimedia Commons By Miles...
Hermann Von Helmoltz By Dr. M. Norton Wise Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles...
This 19th century Sudanese drawing of an amulet includes spells against the ‘evil eye’. Wellcome Library reference: MS...
Château de Coussac-Bonneval / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Virginia H. Aksan / 01.14.2011 Professor Emeritus of History...