The Sacred Way at Delphi with the remains of the Athenians’ Treasury The Delphic Oracle belonged to...
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Early agrarian women—like these murdered in what is now western France some 6500 years ago—may have been...
Liberty leads the people / Wikimedia Commons Exploring the artistic expressions of the French Revolution. Edited by...
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, 17 June, 1775, by John Trumbull...
When examining the historical development of society, perhaps the most determining factor is education. By Abigail E....
Ratha Yatra Festival in Puri, India on James Fergusson’s painting / Public Domain Very little is known...
Tauroctony statue / Photo by Carole Raddato, Creative Commons Mithraism was a mystery cult in the Roman...
A wall of the triclinium, traditionally interpreted to represent the stages of initiation to the cult. Silenus...
Véronique Pagnier, Stanhope Press from Fontaine de Vaucluse, France, Creative Commons Share Alike (2011). One of the...
Let us remember we are not only participating in history, but also potentially creating it. By Dale...
Night of August 4th, abolition of feudality and fiscal privileges, by Léopold Morice / Photo by Teofilo,...
Japanese imperial family / Wikimedia Commons The collapse of aristocratic rule ushered in a new age of...
A 15th century CE painting by Jean Fouquet depicting the Second Crusaders (1147-49 CE), led by Louis...
Pope Urban’s motives in preaching the First Crusade are unclear. By Sarah Hough Dickinson College Pope Urban’s...
Political parties thrive when they are able to manage the media and effectively promote their candidates, leaders,...
Walter Lippmann / Public Domain The interwar period was a moment of deep crisis everywhere. By Dr....
Handscroll, ink and color on silk, 24.4 x 343.8 cm / British Library Exploring some of the...
A fresco by Cesare Maccari (1840-1919 CE) depicting Roman senator Cicero (106-43 BCE) denouncing the conspirator Catiline...
Skull of a Homo sapiens (a.k.a. modern human) individual, on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural...
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,...