Before and after pictures of Castle Matrera. (Photo by The Guardian) From Medievalists.net: “A botched restoration attempt...
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In contrast to today’s rather mundane spawn of coffeehouse chains, the London of the 17th and 18th...
Adean Jacobs (director) and Samara Hersch (assistant director) / Photo Sarah Walker The playwrights were usually financially...
Mary Fissell on how a wildly popular sex manual – first published in 17th-century London and reprinted...
The Oklahoma House of Representatives has passed a measure intended to restore the Ten Commandments monument that...
From Dattatreya Mandal at Realm of History, “Previously we have harped about Rome’s infrastructure and Rome’s army....
Brewminate’s Legal/Religious contributor, Dana Eilers, was featured in an interview with Paula Sperry on her podcast “Talking...
Margaret Hamilton inside a mock-up of the Apollo command module. MIT Today is International Women’s Day. There...
From Alastair Dalton at The Scotswoman, “The lost medieval village of Cadzow may have been finally located...
From Kathleen Harris at FilmsForAction.org, “Despite misconceptions, there are tons of women that have participated in revolutions...
“This incredibly expansive facade was carved into 150 marble slabs and then mounted across an entire wall...
“If you have a son or daughter attending university, most likely you will be getting a message...
Medievalists.net begins this article with, “It is not too difficult to come across teachers writing about how...
The Virtual World Heritage Laboratory has created an animation depicting what Hadrian’s Villa would look like if...
On February 18, 1564, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni died. Michelangelo was primarily an artist. He claimed...
By the election of 1800, the nation’s first two parties were beginning to take shape. The Presidential...
On this date in 1923, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon opened Tutankhamun’s tomb. Carter was an...
On February 15th, 1879, American President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases...
From History.com: “On February 14around the year 278A.D., Valentine, a holy priest in Rome in the days...
Matthew A. McIntosh So we have some saying nominating and appointing a Supreme Court Justice in an...
On February 12, 11 BCE, Tiberius – the adopted son and heir of Augustus – married...
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War between Great Britain...
During the campaign and election in 1824, then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams found himself ultimately vying...
On this date in 1777, Timothy Bigelow, a Major in the Revolutionary War, became the Colonel of...
On this date in 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 7285 designating the flag of...
On February 6, 1778, the Bourbon Monarchy of France signed two treaties of alliance with the revolutionary...
Thirty years later, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of the murder of Medgar Evers...
On this date in both 1789 and 1792, George Washington was the first and only person to...
Spain’s Battle Flag in the American Colonies From Jonathan R. Dull, The French Navy and American Independence:...
Image from Wikipedia On this date in history, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially brought the Mexican...