A healthy-seeming cook gained unwelcome notoriety as Typhoid Mary, unwittingly spreading disease to co-workers and employers. Ultimately,...
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A huge expansion of the population of New Orleans created the perfect environment for the spread of...
Creative Commons Welcoming tribes to conquering settlers. By Josh Stewart / 04.17.2017 Genocide is the systematic destruction of...
The last emperor, Sapa Inka Atahualpa / Wikimedia Commons The Sapa Inka (emperor) governed Tahuantinsuyu both efficiently and profitably. What’s...
Charlemagne, portrait by Albrecht Dürer / Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Wikimedia Commons His was the first truly imperial power in...
Front of a Frankish casket / Photo by John w. Schulze, Wikimedia Commons Their expansion continued until...
By Tom van der Molen PhD Candidate in Art History Radboud University Nijmegen “Ik kan het niet...
Castillo de Zafra / Photo by Borjaanimal, Wikimedia Commons Medieval men and women were caught up in...
The archaeological evidence is clear, but the mechanisms of diffusion are still not entirely understood. By Dr....
A Phoenician-Punic ship from a relief carving on a 2nd century CE sarcophagus / Photo by NMB, Wikimedia...
Ruins in the Town of Ur, Southern Iraq / Photo by M.Lubinski, Flickr, Creative Commons Ur was an established...
A map illustrating the various political states within the Fertile Crescent c. 1450 BCE / Image by Свифт/Svift, Wikimedia Commons...
Executions of Jews by German army mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) near Ivangorod, Ukraine / Wikimedia Commons The Holocaust...
In August 1939 Joseph Stalin made a mistake, one that deeply affected not only the Soviet Union...
Charming family scenes in Victorian adverts for children’s medicines were in stark contrast to some of the...
Many common remedies, as well as the more exotic experimental drugs, were taken throughout the 19th century,...
This painting by Roberto Bompiani captures a common 19th-century association of Roman dining and excess. A Roman Feast,...
Despite its economic crises, Greece did not falter in its mission to support arts and culture. Rhodes,...
In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or...
Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century. By Ruth Garde / 04.12.2017...
Colonization of the area that became the Captaincy General began in 1524. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic...
Mayan architecture, Tikal, Guatemala Maya civilization developed in a territory the size of Germany and Denmark together....
Fragment of an inscripted clay cone of Urukagina (or Uruinimgina), lugal (prince) of Lagash. The inscription reads: “He [Uruinimgina] dug...
The “Burney Relief,” which is believed to represent either Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war,...
Protests during the Iranian Revolution, 1978 represent broader struggles across the region between secular and Islamic models...
To try and understand the Russian revolution outside of the broader social context of the time is...
The story of a flamboyant doctor whose famous fans included Dickens. But his experiments with hypnosis eventually met...
Detail from a coloured etching after C-L. Desrais depicting people gathered around the “baquet” at one of...
Downtown Tokyo in the 1920s / Creative Commons During the 1920s, Soviet cultural authorities sought to develop...
Nanjing Jinling Arsenal 1865, built by Li Hongzhang / Wikimedia Commons In the 19th century, after a long...