Skull of a Homo sapiens (a.k.a. modern human) individual, on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural...
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History tells us that midterm elections are bad — sometimes very bad — for the party that...
Read my lips (and forehead). Wikimedia Commons Abraham Lincoln brought commercial photographers on board. By Dr. Joanna...
Police disperse protesters outside MIT’s nuclear missile laboratories, November 1969. / MIT Museum Locating Chomsky’s linguistics and...
The University of Glasgow / Photo by Mike Peel, Wikimedia Commons Charlemagne realized that his empire needed...
Mandeville’s Travels was, for more than two centuries after its appearance in c.1356, of enormous influence and...
In the mid-16th century, Elizabeth I’s government came up with a series of measures to deter “divers...
A Maitraka copper plate / Wikimedia Commons Archaeological evidence suggests that copper was first used between 8,000...
Statue of Alexander Hamilton by James Earle Fraser in front of the United States Treasury Building in...
Illustration of a workroom where several men use machines and tools to craft prosthetics / National Library...
The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople, by Eugene Delacroix, 1840 / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons The...
Desecrated Christian icons in Turkey / Photo by Georges Jansoone JoJan, Göreme Valley Open Air Museum, Cappadocia,...
Brysa Hill ruins / Creative Commons Genocide is often viewed as a particular feature of our own...
Skeletal remains of a group of foragers massacred around 10,000 years ago on the shores of a...
A police box is set to go up for auction / Photo by Rightmove In attempting to...
CSIRAC was originally built in Sydney by the CSIRO before being transferred to Melbourne University. Melbourne University,...
Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship on the eve of America’s entry into the First World War....
Plaza Cristobal Colon in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico / Wikimedia Commons In 1898, the Puerto Rican...
Edinburgh Castle / Photo by Becks, Wikimedia Commons Examining a microcosm of the medieval world in the...
The Gimli viking statue / Photo by Krazytea, Wikimedia Commons Medieval Iceland illustrates an actual and well-documented...
Photo by Marine 69-71, Wikimedia Commons It was 1848, the end of the Mexican-American War. By Naomi...
A 16th century chart of Europe and North Africa. Luis Texieira, Portolan Chart, Lisbon, ca. 1600 via...
14th-century theological compendium / University of California Berkeley Special Collections Examining depictions of penance and confession in...
Tracing the sad medieval history of the siren and trying to understand where it all went wrong....
Alexandria – View of ruins of the Serapeum from Pompey’s Pillar / Photo by Daniel Mayer, Wikimedia...
Drunken Old Woman. Late 3rd century BCE. Hellenistic Sculpture / Photo by Evergreen State College, Creative Commons...
Spanish conquistador style armour / Photo by John Martin Perry, Wikimedia Commons Columbus’s colonization of the Atlantic...
The Inquisition Tribunal, by Francisco Goya, c.1815 / Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Wikimedia...
Mosaic of amphorae being unloaded from a ship, Ostia / Southampton University, Creative Commons The trade networks...
Hundreds of ancient gold coins were unearthed in the basement of a demolished theater in northern Italy....