Judging from his public speeches, Franklin D. Roosevelt–aka FDR–may have been our most religious 20th century President....
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A mass grave found in Dorset could belong to a crew of Viking mercenaries who terrorised Europe...
A 1540s depiction of a judicial combat in Augsburg in 1409, between Marshal Wilhelm von Dornsberg and...
The Sebasteion, excavated in 1979-81, was a grandiose temple complex dedicated to Aphrodite and the Julio-Claudian emperors...
Saint-Sulpice church, the romanesque portal, 12th-c., at Marignac, Charente-Maritime, France / Photo by Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons The...
There were alternate systems of belief for those dissatisfied with the chaotic traditional religious forms. By Dr....
Trajan / Creative Commons The Roman Empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Emperor Trajan. By Dr....
Detail of Geta (face removed) and Caracalla from the Severan Tondo, c. 200 C.E., tempera on wood,...
A section of the Antonine Wall at Rough Castle near Falkirk / Photo by Kim Traynor, Wikimedia...
Chesters Roman Fort – View of the Barrack Blocks Securing the borders of the Roman Empire had...
Examining the rise of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 10.08.2018 Historian Brewminate...
Examining the roles of Germany, Italy, and Japan in the Second World War. Edited by Matthew A....
Aztec calendar / Anthropology Museum, Photo by Rengarajang, Wikimedia Commons The Aztecs dominated the Valley of Mexico...
Tikal Mayan ruins in Guatemala. Credit – chensiyuan, WIkimedia Commons Geology relates to interdisciplinary or seemingly unconnected topics,...
The mausoleum of Augustus in Rome / Photo by ryarwood, Wikimedia Commons “I found a city built...
Ostraka for Ostracism / Museum of the Ancient Agora, Wikimedia Commons Although the Greek city-states differed in...
This copy of a medieval manuscript illustration shows a peasant using a very modest version of the...
Medieval townsfolk needed very different sorts of technologies than did rural farmers, and they eagerly adopted tools...
Why can’t we just quit Columbus? He’s a myth. And we love our myths. By Rick Shenkman / 10.03.2018...
Christopher Columbus is depicted here in his only state-sponsored, albeit non-authenticated, portrait, painted by Alejo Fernández between...
On August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain with intentions to find a new route...
Hippocrates, the “father of medicine” / Public Domain By the 5th century BCE, there were attempts to identify...
Dated to the New Kingdom (c. 1570 – c. 1069 BCE), and specifically to c. 1200 BCE, the text...
Despite being largely forgotten today, Lowell Thomas was a pioneering journalist of the 20th century who reshaped...
Mexican soldiers killed up to 300 student protesters and arrested 1,000 more on Oct. 3, 1968, in...
AcequÃa del Camino Inca entrada a la Huaca de los Monos / Photo by Johnattan Rupire, Wikimedia...
A model reconstruction of the Temple Mayor at the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. In use from the 14th to early 16th century...
In the second half of the fourteenth century, petitioners hoping to secure royal grace began addressing the...
The peristyle (courtyard) of Diocletian’s palace The reforms of Diocletian and Constantine “preserved” the empire, but changed...
The March on Rome: From left to right – unknown, Benito Mussolini, Cesare Maria de Vecchi and...