A charming watercolor provides insight into the French artist’s private world. A tiny treasure by Édouard Manet...
Year: 2019
Saint Trophime, Arles, 12th – 15th century (photo: Elliot Brown, CC BY 2.0) By Christine M. Bolli / 08.08.2015 PhD...
Church of Sainte‐Foy, Conques, France, c. 1050–1130 (photo: jean françois bonachera, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Dr. Elisa Foster...
Ireland alone can’t change Israeli policy. But Ireland is determined to lead. The United States hosted Irish...
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The years 1816 to 1819 saw the last wave of immigration into the United States that basically...
The history of discrimination by the United States Department of Agriculture and the class action lawsuits by...
Examining evidence that enslaved persons were involved in the construction of the original Smithsonian Building in Washington,...
Iconic children’s books and popular media that Gen Xers grew up with are riddled with damaging Native...
The 1830 Indian Removal Act led to the displacement of the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Cherokee...
The U.S. Senate was designed to be a more deliberative body than the U.S. House. Introduction The...
The Constitution places few limits on who can serve in the House, but it requires that Members...
Two-thirds of Americans — and nearly all Democratic presidential candidates — now agree that pot prohibition is...
Most medical historians agree that one of the most important advances in medicine was the use of...
During the devil’s last apogee in early modern Europe, demonic afflictions were taken seriously by both priests...
While contemporary laser removal techniques are only around forty years old, efforts to erase or rewrite tattoos...
The tools, called “bone combs,” resemble hair combs with their grooved edges. By Amy Held Tattooing goes...
It has meant different things to different people at different times, which is part of its genius....
French artisans and craftsmen began constructing the Statue in France under Auguste Bartholdi’s direction. The Early Stages...
New research demonstrates that a sculpture is associated with a harrowing episode of anti-Semitic violence in late-1400s...
The Renaissance period (c. 1300-1600 CE) in European countries is renowned for path-breaking and rapid developments and...
Versailles was the location of two seismic shifts in political culture. Ten million tourists flock to Versailles...
By sanctifying the royal body, the act of anointing has often been believed to confer healing powers....
By Dr. Christopher DugganHistorian The announcement on the radio later that evening that the ‘Duce’ had fallen...
Power has forever been entwined with a symbolic apparatus in charge of representing it. Power has forever...
The Ottonian dynasty (German: Ottonen) was a Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (919–1024), named after three of its kings and Holy...
West Francia prospered under succeeding kings up through the rise of the Capetian Dynasty. Introduction The Kingdom...
Pillars of the Great Hypostyle Hall from the Precinct of Amun-Re / Photo by Kurohito, Wikimedia Commons The New Kingdom...