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A statue of Henry David Thoreau in front of a replica of his cabin in Concord, Massachusetts. Chris...
This great writer, great naturalist, and great advocate of self-reliant individualism was also one of the founding fathers...
Discussing Ancient Greek women and their relationship to the visual arts solely on the evidence of the...
Detail of a cup currently on view in the new installation at the Getty Villa. The cup...
Rose Schneiderman, an unsung forerunner of the #MeToo movement, organized women to fight for laws to protect...
(Left-to-right) Carrie Clyde Holly, Clara Cresshingham and Frances Klock They had to convince a majority of men in...
On the eastern side of Ara Pacis is a relief of Tellus Mater, the Roman earth-goddess /...
“Phèdre et Hippolyte” (1802), by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin / Wikimedia Commons Classical discussions often get caught between that...
Linguistic dating is in close agreement with historians’ and classicists’ beliefs derived from historical and archaeological sources. ...
The Hagia Triada sarcophagus at the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion (photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 3.0) This sarcophagus...
Mill children in Macon, photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, 1909 / Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons From...
Celebration of completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad at what is now Golden Spike National Historic Site, Promontory Summit, Utah,...
The Wanderings of a Comet, from Another World, 1844 / Internet Archive With its dreamlike inversions and kaleidoscopic...
Coastal Landscape, ca. 1599. Pen and brown, by Annibale Carracci / Public Domain Examining the phenomenon of seventeenth-century...
A group of tombs at Mada’in Saleh in present-day Saudi Arabia. (Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Nehmé.) The Nabataeans...
Temple of Bel complex in the background and the agora on left center in Palmyra, Syria /...
Edward Jenner, who pioneered vaccination, and two colleagues (right) seeing off three anti-vaccination opponents, with the dead...
With the rapid pace of vaccine development in recent decades, the historic origins of immunization are often...
In May 1796, Edward Jenner was asked to inoculate an eight-year-old pauper child named James Phipps. By...
Creative Commons The site of Jericho, just north of the Dead Sea and due west of the...
Walls have traditionally been built for defense, privacy, and protection. By Dr. Joshua J. Mark / 09.02.2009Professor...
Wikimedia Commons Convention and personal interest compelled Caesar to tum his hand to ethnography. By Dr. B.M....
Titus Lartius was one of the leading men of the early Roman Republic, twice consul, and the first Roman dictator....
From the Guild-Book of the Barber-Surgeons of the city of York / British Library, Public Domain Medicine...
Saint Matthew’s Catholic Church in Mobile, Alabama / Photo by Altairisfar, Wikimedia Commons The Catholic Church in...
A bishop granting indulgences in a fresco by Lorenzo Lotto, c. 1524 (Wikimedia Commons) To understand the...
With a lot not on display, museums may not even know all that’s in their vast holdings....
India’s Mawmluh Cave, home of the reference stalagmite for the newly named age. Abhijeet Khedgikar/Shutterstock.com 2018 brought...
Franklin Roosevelt’s Gubernatorial portrait, by Jacob H. Perskie, 1941 / Wikimedia Commons The Founding Fathers considered term...